The character eliminates a person’s ability to experience positive emotions for a significant period of time.
Prerequisites: Mantle (Winter) ••••
Cost: 3 Glamour + 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Persuasion + Mantle (Winter) vs. Composure + Wyrd ({Manipulation}+{Persuasion} + Winter Mantle vs Composure + Wyrd)
Action: Contested; resistance is reflexive.
Catch: The subject has tasted one of the changeling’s tears.
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The subject remains only moderately sad, but the character is momentarily overcome with great sadness. He loses his Defense until his next action.
Failure: The character fails to inflate the subject’s emotions.
Success: The subject’s sorrow grows to unmanageable proportions. She can do nothing beyond curl up and feel terrible for a number of turns equal to the successes rolled. The subject may take no actions and may not move but retains her Defense. This Contract affects only subjects already feeling sorrow.
Exceptional Success: The subject’s emotion so overwhelms her that she loses her Defense for the Contract’s duration.
Suggested Modifiers
| Modifier | Situation |
| +2 | The subject’s sorrow is already great. |
| +1 | The subject’s sorrow is strong. |
| –1 | The subject’s sorrow is quite minor. |