The changeling gives a speech or performance, such as a song or play, which profoundly affects the minds of listeners within 50 yards of the changeling. Although the changeling can augment her voice with a microphone, videos or recordings do not contain the fae magic present in the actual in-person performance. Once the character succeeds in preparing the audience, she can begin weaving a speech or other performance that warps their memories and supercharges their emotions.
Cost: 3 Glamour + 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Wyrd+ Expression + vs. the subject’s Composure+ Wyrd ({Supernatural Trait}+{Expression} vs Composure + Wyrd)
Action: Extended and Contested (five successes; each roll represents one minute). If the changeling has not achieved the needed number of successes in a number of rolls equal to her Presence + Expression, the audience loses interest. One contested roll may be made reflexively for a crowd based on the highest Composure present. Supernatural targets may make their own resistance rolls.
Catch: The changeling is attempting to convince the audience of something that she believes to be factually correct.
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure:The audience turns hostile. Those who are so inclined may turn to violence.
Failure: The performance is uninspired and has no effect on listeners.
Success: The character tells, sings or demonstrates an emotionally charged story. Listeners fall into a light dreamlike trance. The events of this story affect them deeply, and they remember the events being described either as having happened to them or as something they personally witnessed or heard from a trusted friend. The audience reacts to the described events as if to vivid reality, but will not likely take any action they would not normally perform under strong provocation. The changeling cannot control how the audience reacts to their new memories. The effects of this performance last until the sun next rises. A crowd verging on riot told a story about how the events angering them have a reasonable explanation will likely calm down and disperse. Similarly, the members of a peaceful community meeting could be moved to mob violence if told that a neighbor is secretly a serial killer plotting to kidnap and kill their children.
Exceptional Success:
The performance so completely touches the audience’s hearts that they follow any simple and not obviously foolish or suicidal suggestion that the changeling makes about how to react to the story.
Suggested Modifiers
| Modifier | Situation |
| +1 to +2 | The changeling is wearing or using unusually fine costumes, instruments or other accoutrements. |
| +1 | The character has three or more dots in Presence. |
| +2 | The targets are an audience expecting and eager to see a speech or performance. |
| –1 to –2 | The changeling is dressed in an unassuming fashion and without special props or accoutrements. |