Mock Mind
Auspex ••••, Dominate •••
Since the Melissadae’s re-awakening, they have taken care to hide themselves, and their hives. Some Melissidae have learned how to create a false “mask” personality, which they can bestow upon their diligent drones.
Effect
Successful activation of this power enables the Melissid to imbue a drone with an entirely fake but wholly convincing personality, constructed from lingering fragments of identity subsumed by the hive-mind.
Dramatic failure causes the personality created to take hold of the drone so strongly that, on the moment of its fi rst activation, the personality becomes the drone’s real personality. If this happens, the drone, believing himself always to have been this new person, won’t actually know what’s happened to him and cannot be returned to the hive-mind. A drone to whom this happens can be very dangerous. He might realize that huge chunks of his history are missing and begin to investigate. More likely, he suffers a psychotic episode and becomes an immediate and signifi cantliability.
This false personality can, once installed, be activated or de-activated with a telepathic cue from the drone’s queen or from another Melissid with this power attached to the hive (such as one of the queen’s childer). When activated, the drone’s Social and Mental Attributes and Skills return to the levels they held before his induction into the hive-mind.
The mask personality fools mortals, but has no aura; attempts at telepathic scanning using Auspex or similar powers find that beneath the surface, there is literally nothing.
Dramatic failure causes the personality created to take hold of the drone so strongly that, on the moment of its fi rst activation, the personality becomes the drone’s real personality. If this happens, the drone, believing himself always to have been this new person, won’t actually know what’s happened to him and cannot be returned to the hive-mind. A drone to whom this happens can be very dangerous. He might realize that huge chunks of his history are missing and begin to investigate. More likely, he suffers a psychotic episode and becomes an immediate and signifi cantliability.
This false personality can, once installed, be activated or de-activated with a telepathic cue from the drone’s queen or from another Melissid with this power attached to the hive (such as one of the queen’s childer). When activated, the drone’s Social and Mental Attributes and Skills return to the levels they held before his induction into the hive-mind.
The mask personality fools mortals, but has no aura; attempts at telepathic scanning using Auspex or similar powers find that beneath the surface, there is literally nothing.
Material Components
Cost: 2 Vitae
Gestures & Ritual
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Empathy + Dominate
Effect Casting Time
Instant
Transcriber recommends average cost for devotions of 3 times the number of discipline dots needed to learn it.
Using that this devotion would cost 21 XP to learn.