The character eliminates a person’s ability to experience positive emotions for a significant period of time.
Prerequisites: Mantle (Winter) ••• or Court Goodwill (Winter) •••••
Cost: 2 Glamour
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Intimidation + Mantle (Winter) vs. Composure + Wyrd ({Manipulation}+{Intimidation} + Winter Mantle vs Composure + Wyrd)
Action: Contested; resistance is reflexive.
Catch: The character has made the subject happy (or happier) within the last 10 minutes.
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The subject remains capable of positive emotions and becomes immune to the character’s Fleeting Winter Contracts for one full day.
Failure: The character does not affect the subject.
Success: The subject loses all capability to experience positive emotions such as joy, happiness and variations thereon for one day per success rolled. She becomes unable to regain Willpower by acting on her Virtues or Vices, and suffers a –2 dice penalty to all Social rolls.
Exceptional Success: The subject’s positive emotions remain deadened until the changeling releases them.
Suggested Modifiers
| Modifier | Situation |
| +1 | The subject is already sad. |
| –1 | The subject is experiencing positive emotions currently. |
| –2 | The subject’s positive emotions are notably strong. |