[UA] Re: Traumamancy

[Werdeth Holm]

>Wow, this is really close to a school of magic I was chewing on in my 
> >head. I was tossing around the idea of calling it Lachrimancy and >having 
>it be the polar opposite of Irascimancy. I was thinking it >would have been 
>developed by a major Irascimancer, or possibly the >founder, who got a free 
>trip to the House of Renunciation.

>So basically, as a sort of mirror to Irasc., the "tear jerkers" would >have 
>to get others to cry and comfort them, but could never partake of >their 
>own grief. They could never express their own pain.

Curiously enough, there is a player character in my group who is a 
"lachrymancer" (a tear-based adept, or, more properly speaking, a quirk, as 
defined in PMM).  She's an obsessive-compulsive who collects tears and, 
through those tears, has achieved some measure of control over grief, pain, 
and, naturally, tears.

Generate a Minor Charge: Collect and bottle the shed tears of a person 
crying naturally.  A lacrymancer may collect her own tears for a minor 
charge, but, unfortunately, the adept cannot gain more than one charge a 
month off of any single individual (yes - Megan Mueller collects her tears 
every time she cries, but then she’s an obsessive-compulsive).

Lachrymantically-charged tears are kept in small bottles or other similiar 
containers.  The amount collected is largely irrelevant - one drop or a 
hundred, it’s still one charge per person per bottle.  The adept consumes 
the tears when casting magick.

Generate a Significant Charge: Collect and bottle the tears of a person 
crying as the result of a major emotional state, such as a failed (or, 
perhaps, successful?) Madness check or similar circumstance judged 
appropriate by the GM.  Some examples include the death of a loved one, a 
once in a lifetime success or personal failure, or witnessing a major 
catastrophe.  Circumstances should determine appropriateness - hysterically 
crying over spilled milk would not count for a significant charge, but 
sobbing because a spouse died in an automobile accident
would.

Once a significant charge has been drawn from a person, no further charges 
of any type may be drawn again from that individual in the future.  It’s a 
once only magickal charging.

Generate a Major Charge: Collect and bottle the tears of a significant 
person crying as the result of a major emotional state.  A significant 
person may be someone famous, like a major political figure, or someone 
mystically powerful, such as a godwalker or an adept holding a major charge. 
  As before, though, once a major charge has been drawn from a person, no 
further collections of any type are possible with that person.

Her character's taboo is largely being unable to express any degree of pain 
or emotional distress . . . that and collecting lots and lots of tears.

Werdeth Holm
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