[UA] Avatar: the Lady

[Susan Dohnim]

>From: "R. Menzi" <menzi212 at yahoo.com>

>Your first channel (forcing everyone to be polite) is
>far to proactive... I can't think of a single parallel
>channel that imposes such a strong effect on others
>behaviors.  As a second channel, it could work, though
>still a bit powrful.  Besides, I don't think the
>primary essence of a Lady is that they make men who
>aren't polite to them instantly panic, freeze, or
>frenzy.
>
>Since physical violence would be fall under "impolite"
>this would be on par with the Mother's 3rd channel.
>Not that everything has to match up, just that you
>should keep the play-tested precidents in mind.

Not so sure about this -- I think that someone could be physically violent
towards the Lady, but they'd have to be polite about it, and politely 
threaten
her first ("If you don't come with me, I'm going to have to . . . "). 
Remember
that the Lady has an automatic drawback going in that she can't engage in 
physical
violence at all if there's a man around to defend her.

>(I'd suggest that Savages have a natural immunity to a couple of these 
>channels)

That makes sense.

I would add that the first channel could be toned down a bit by putting the 
same
limitation on it that the 1st Trickster channel has -- make it work only on 
those men
that have a Soul score lower than her Avatar skill. (And no, I'm not just 
saying that so
I can blow her off in Jeff's UA campaign :) ).

>1-50%:  The Lady’s aura of propriety is palpable.  Men
>around her must treat her with utmost courtesy:
>opening doors for her, buying her dinner, refraining
>from expletives in her presence, et cetera.  It’s
>still possible for a man to act against the Lady’s
>wishes; he can forcibly tie her to a chair and steal
>her television set, but he must do so politely.
>Failure to comply with these limits causes a Self
>check at a rank equal to the tens digit of the Lady’s
>avatar skill.

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