[UA] help with a school

[Jade Hammons]

Every school I've ever written along these lines has always been dark... very very dark. This is the very definition of an amoral school at the very least, reaching in and twisting someone's mind to do what you want it to do. 

I created a couple of these schools.

One, I can't find, called the God-speakers, controlled peoples minds with their voices. Their charging structure was based on blind faith.

the second, I have dredged up from the archives, circa 2004. As you can see, I'm a firm believer in "Power Costs", also this _is_ 2nd ed, but I am very fond of BOHICA and OACOWAs, and use them in my text. Oddly enough, this school is even more appropriate today that it was 3 years ago with cultures up in arms over public kisses by movie stars, and random celebrities spouting racial diatribes.

Libidomancy
[Libidomancer shares more in common with Thanatomancy than many would
like. Practitioners are either quite low powered or sexual monsters
beyond the pale. Libanomancy is sex taken to obsession and past it
until it breaks reality. It is not a fluffy puppy afterglow school.
Libidomancers are feared and hated, and generally unsavory.]

"I'm just seven hours old, 
Truly beautiful to behold,
And somebody should be told,
That my libido hasn't been controlled
Now the only thing I've come to trust,
Is an orgasmic rush of lust
Rose tint my world keep me safe from my trouble and pain."

AKA: Sluts, Rapists, Sex Fiends, DeSades

When is sex not about sex? When it's about power and control. 

There's a lot of sex magick in the world, mostly rituals, but
Libidomancy is beyond that. Sex, like any obsession, doesn't look the
same to the non-obsessed. The Libidomancer doesn't care about love, or
any of those emotional or spiritual trappings.  You want to get close
to your lover and experience the joy of physical union? Find a ritual.

Libidomancy is a very old magick style, but is making a comeback,
something that has more than a few Dukes on edge.  At its core
Libidomancy generates the reality static to generate charges from the
paradox of getting pleasure from the breaking of taboos. Something
that one holds to be wrong and still doing it because it 'feels good'
Ironically the most powerful Libidomancers tend to be staunch
ultra-conservatives, at least around other people.  In order to create
power, they must keep the acts of sex taboo and wrong, a free love
hippy doesn't have that kind of power, a Southern Baptist advisor to a
junior senator on the other hand..

Pornomancy is a conundrum to the Libidomancers. Its followers practice
and endorse ritual degradation that is a Libidomancer's bread and
butter, but at the same time, the ascension of the Naked Goddess has
moved the world a couple steps closer to being sexually free, which is
bad.

One thing to always remember, sex is only a tool to the Libidomancer,
and you are nothing but the screw they turn with it to raise the
tension. Libidomancers are as self-absorbed as Amoromancers, and like
them tend to see everyone as a potential source for powering up. Also,
Libidomancers aren't always dominants; they get just as much power for
having things done to them as they get from doing things to other
people. After a while most Libidomancers don't care about sexual
preference, dominance or submission, giving or receiving, or any of
the things that most sane people regard as things you should care
about sexually.

Few in the occult underground are aware of just how dangerous the
Libidomancers truly are.

 
Blast Style
Libidomancers have no blast, they don't need one. They can reduce your
soul to a bunch of conflicting desires and instincts without ever
hurting you physically.

Stats
Generate a Minor Charge: Perform a sexual act, lasting at least 15
minutes, that contravenes social, moral, and/or ethical norms and
expectations. There was a time when the simple act of masturbation was
worth a charge, now it takes compulsive or public masturbation. If you
have a partner, it's all going to be mindset. As long as they feel a
little guilt over something you did to them or made them do, you get
the charge. Again there was a time when the simple act of premarital
sex was enough for charges. Minor charges do not even require what
most would consider 'sexual contact'. The degradation of verbal sexual
harassment or laying an explicit gay sex magazine in your company's
break room can be enough to pull in a minor charge. A single person
can provide only 1 minor charge per day.

Generate a Significant Charge: To gain a significant charge all it
takes is to totally go against the sexual morals and ethics of society
and perform a taboo breaking act on another person. A single person is
only worth one of these a week. Anything that would disgust or outrage
the majority of people that hear about it is worth a significant
charge. A powerful Libidomancer's sexual depravity often knows no
bounds. Degrading someone of personal import to you (one of your
children, etc) is also worth an additional significant charge. Once
you have used someone for a significant charge you can pull no further
minor charges off of them.
Also, a Libidomancer gains a significant charge for each new sexual
experience they have. (Not new people, new experiences. They first
time a Slut is whipped they get a significant charge, but from then
on, they are stuck with minors, unless the envelope is pushed hard
again. They may get another significant charge the first time they are
whipped bloody and unconscious. but maybe not. Powerful Libidomancers
have a large amount of been there, done that jadedness from their try
anything once mentality.)

Generate a Major Charge:  To gain a major charge requires actions
similar to a Significant Charge, but they must be performed on a
famous person, and at least 10 million people must hear about and
believe that the event took place and feel some level of outrage at
the story. People that think the 'person deserved it' or are apathetic
about the event are the bane of the Major charge, so Libidomancers
aiming for a major charge don't take chances with the severity of the
event, and usually aim for something that is deadly, soul-shattering,
mind-shattering, or completely debilitating. A provider of a major
charge can not be charged off of, by any Libidomancer, ever again,
even if they ended up only providing a significant charge. Nothing
pisses off a Libidomancer quite as much as to play out on of their
charge gathering rituals, and get a significant instead of the major
they were aiming at. For this reason those seeking this level of power
are going to choose saintly over sinner any day. Brutal, debilitating,
sodomization of Osama bin Laden might get you crap, but that same
action against Emma Watson should reap what you've sewn. It's a
delicate balancing act, as popularity creates sympathizers and haters.
 Best advice: Pick someone with the best reputation you can find and
aim as big as your own stress checks will let you.


Taboo:  For a Libidomancer there is no sexual act for the mere
pleasure of performing a sexual act. They will twist sexual
conversations into the gutter, often subtly and they will always take
advantage of their partners' weaknesses.  A sexual act without a
sexual taboo broken is a Magickal Taboo for the Rapist. Also, if the
Libidomancer somehow doesn't manage to draw a charge from sex, they
break taboo. There a few ways this could occur; their partner is a
sociopath and literally doesn't care what happens to it or they
attempt a lower charge gathering ritual on someone that has provided a
more powerful charge. Once you've made the house girl do the Doberman,
a simple spanking isn't going to do crap anymore. Libidomancy is about
pushing the envelope, there are no take backs. What this in effect
means is that once they have turned someone into a total, degraded,
sex slave and gotten their major charge, the person no longer has
anything that interests them, despite the fact the victim may 'need'
them as desperately as they need food, water, or shelter.

Random Magic Domain: Libidomancer is about control and the breaking of
taboos. That it uses sex to achieve this is somewhat secondary.

Starting Charges: Libidomancers begin with 4 Minor Charges.

Unique Limitation: The Libidomancy skill suffers the slings and arrows
of popular culture. At the GM's option they suffer a magickal penalty
similar to that suffered by Cryptomancers depending on the strictness
of the sexual mores in the community they are practicing in. In most
places in the Western World this is a -10% modifier.  In very liberal
cities, it might go as high as 15%, and in 'free-love' communes there
could be as much as -20% applied. Stricter communities are generally
on a -5%, and there are areas in the Middle East, and other
religiously 'faithful' communities where the Libidomancer suffers no
penalty at all. Basically the more sexually free an area is, the
higher the penalty and vice versa. While in their Parlor, the
Libidomancer doesn't suffer any reduction of skill.

Charging Tips:  Libidomancers can easily rack up a handful of minor
charges and a couple significant charges a day, as long as they keep
making those various stress checks that their Art often requires of
them, and don't get arrested. Fortunately for a Libidomancer, it's not
all that tough to get charged up in prison or a mental hospital
either. Many Libidomancers become borderline personalities. They will
use a person to pull minor charges, slowly training them up to
significant charges, and then slowly breaking them until they can reap
a major charge from them.  They often form dangerous personality cults
for just such a purpose.

Minor Formula Spells

Voyeurism
Cost: 1 Minor charge
By catching the target's gaze for just long enough to look into their
eyes, the Libidomancer may learn one sexually related fact about them.
With enough time and charges, a Rapist can have a pretty complete idea
of a potential victim's sexual history. Common visions are of the
sexual experience they are most ashamed of, their darkest fantasy,
when they first had sex, etc.

Spontaneous climax
Cost: 2 Minor Charges
Effect: The target of this effect spontaneously and suddenly without
warning, orgasms. In a combat situation, this means at the minimum the
target loses initiative on the next round, and possibly loses the
round altogether. This is rolled as a stress check of no particular
type or strength. On a success the target loses initiative, on a
failure they lose a round. On a match success or OACOWA they can shake
it off, on a matched failure or BOHICA it triggers a rank-7 self check
with flight being the action most often chosen on a failure. Even if
they don't flee they lose two rounds, and lose initiative until the
end of the combat. It should be noted that this spell does not require
a person be capable of ejaculation under normal circumstances, this is
a pure assault on the pleasure centers of the brain

The Spider's Parlour:
Cost: 2 Minor Charges
Effect: The caster may cast this spell on an area no larger 50 square
feet. The area must be bordered by walls on all sides, so you can't
just cast it in the corner of a larger room. Any sexual violence that
occurs in this area will not cause psychic ripples outside the area.
All the power feeds into the Sanctum, preparing it as a Carnal
breeding ground. The sanctum, after charged will cloud completely to
any kind of scrying. At most it will register as a unwholesome, cloudy
darkness, but to even sense this much the seer must be looking for the
sanctum itself and have an idea of what they are looking for,
otherwise the mystic eyes slips off the oily shield of pain and
ignores the place altogether. In addition magick cast, charges reaped,
etc within the sanctum can not be detected even right outside the
door. This spell must be renewed weekly. If cast on a room other than
the ritually prepared Sanctum (like a hotel room), its effects only
last for 24 hours. The sanctum does nothing until it is charged by at
least one act of sexual violence. Much of what a Sanctum is was
developed to counter the abilities of the Mystic Hermaphrodite, who
seems to be even more offended by Libidomancers than most other
entities.

Conditioning
Cost: 3 Minor Charges.
Effect: Until the next dawn or dusk, whichever is furthest away, the
target will feel blissful, sexual pleasure when performing an action
specified by the caster. Each time this wears off, the target must
make the equivalent of a self-check at a rank 6 or the 10's digit of
the magick roll, whichever is higher. Each time they fail, they get a
mark next to 'Conditioning (situation)'. If a conditioning ever equals
or exceeds the 10's digit of their soul stat they gain a 'philia' or
fetish that recreates the situation they've been conditioned to
respond to. Every 24 hours they go without conditioning removes one
mark from all conditioning scores, each situation must be conditioned
separately. Once the target has formed a sexual deviancy form the
conditioning, only psychiatric care will lower the conditioning score
it is based on, as though they were failed marks. The action must be
specific, it can not be vague like 'do anything I say', or 'act like
my slave', it has to be concrete like 'Shoot a gun', 'break a taboo',
'kill someone', etc. Once the fetish is formed, the target is
considered a 'vessel' for the prerequisites of other spells. If the
fetish disappears, so does their 'vessel' status.

Dog Whistle
Cost: 3 Minor Charges
Effect: This spell will draw the closest Carnal that is no more that
33.3 miles away from the Caster. It will move at their best speed, but
it won't magically appear. Once it arrives it will perform one,
possibly relatively complex, action for the caster as long as it is
properly rewarded before returning to their normal haunts. Carnals
recognize the Rapist as a kindred spirit, and once the Caster is aware
of them and their haunts, he can go about creating more lasting bonds
with them.

Loose lips sink ships.
Cost: 4 Minor Charges.
Effect: The next words out of the targets mouth are the pure,
unvarnished, truth. But they don't just tell the truth, they vent
their anger or frustration in the words if possible. If the target is
actually paying attention to what they are saying, they may make a
self check at the level of the 10's roll. On the other hand, if they
are venting anyway, or just off on a debate-like rant, the words will
just flow out without any prompting. The Rapist may spend an extra
charge and name a one-work subject that the truth will be about if
they wish. To manifest this spell, they caster must make direct
eye-to-eye contact with the victim. (Example: City Councilman Rick
Holmes, now running for state senator, is on a televised debate with
the current state Senator, a Democrat. He spends 5 charges, looks his
opponent in the face,  and mutters the word 'race', and in the middle
of a long rant about unemployment, the current senator places a few
choice thoughts on the causes of the unemployment and the laziness and
worthlessness of the n*****s that are causing it. The next day his
polls plummet.)


Significant Formula Spells

Cloud of Pheromones
Cost: 1 Significant Charge.
Effect: The target of this spell will favorably interpret the
Libidomancer's actions, words, and body language until the caster
leaves their presence.  This is much like the situational blindness
that new love causes. They person will accentuate all the casters
traits they see as positive and conveniently disregard traits they
normally wouldn't like. The target will be friendly towards the caster
and more likely to help them, or at least ignore their ugly side. Once
it wears off, the target will be a little ashamed inside as they
realize their 'attraction' to the caster, the level of shame is quite
variable depending on how taboo feeling an attraction towards the
caster would be. (i.e. A woman that might already find the caster
attractive will be bothered little at their flirtatiousness, while a
homophobic burly man may be disgusted and go get drunk and do
something to 'prove his manhood'.

Curse of Priapus
Cost: 1 Significant Charge.
This spell causes the victim to suffer an immediate and painful
swelling of the sexual tissue in their body. Until the next dawn or
dusk, whichever is farther away the Victim must take a distraction
penalty to all their actions. This penalty is equal to the combined
digits of the magick roll. Sexual contact is extremely painful, and
provides no release, but a doctor trained in dealing with sexual
disorders can administer a shot of various relaxants which will end
the effect early.
Though the title of this spell suggests it only works on men, it works
on either sex indiscriminately. For an additional charge, the Rapist
can extend the effect to the reproductive system, creating cramping,
uncontrolled ejaculation in men, the trigger of menstruation in women
and often, if the woman is pregnant, a miscarriage. This allows the
caster to add one more die to the distraction penalty, both from
enhanced pain, and demoralization.

Blessings of Adonis/Aphrodite 
Cost: 1 Significant Charge.
Effect: Each casting of this spell allows the caster to grant
themselves one 'paranormal' sexual ability. Whether it is godlike
stamina or a phallus the size of a bull is irrelevant, as long as it
had a legendary, mythical, or pop culture history. This change lasts
until the next sunrise. Specific changes should be adjudicated by the
GM. In general skills granted with this ability should be at a level
equal to the caster's 'Adept: Libidomancer' skill.

You know you want it.
Cost: 2 Significant Charges.
Effect: The target of this spell must make a self check at a level
equal to the 10's digit of the magick roll to avoid doing something
totally taboo to them. For an average person, this might be
embarrassing but for an adept it can be devastating. This desire to
break taboo (or Taboo as the case may be) reasserts itself hourly
until the next dusk or dawn, whichever is farther away. If and when
they fail the check and break taboo, the compulsion leaves, like the
sudden hormone dip after a strong orgasm, leaving them feeling
violated. Those with a soul of 60+ or adepts will be able to recognize
this desire as being external to them, but most people will just blame
themselves for their moment of weakness, beating themselves up
emotionally, as people are prone to do. Casting this on a Vessel
offers no advantages or disadvantages to the Rapist.

Arouse the Libido
Cost: 3 Significant Charges
Effect: The target of this ritual, who must be a Vessel, can be sent
an 'urge' by the Libidomancer. This Urge is for the Vessel to take a
certain action. If it something they are likely to do anyway, they
will do it. If it something they would not do under most
circumstances, they may make a self-check at a level equal to the 10's
digit of the magick roll plus the number of philias/fetishes the
Libidomancer has inflicted on the vessel. Failure results in following
the urge. This is not telepathy, and the target will feel this command
as a gut need, not as a worded command, so they may interpret it
different than the Rapist intended, for this reason, the caster
usually tries to Urge based on already Conditioned responses.

Because I said so
Cost: 4 Significant Charges.
Effect: The target must make a self check at a value of the 10's digit
of the magick roll, or become subservient to the caster's will for the
performance of one, possibly complex,  action. The action must be
plainly stated in a language the target will understand. If for some
reason the target is a vessel, they add their number of
philias/fetishes to the difficulty level of the stress check. The self
check is 3 levels higher if the action is purely sexual in nature. 
Yes it's harder for the Libidomancer to make the jailer unlock a jail
cell that to submit to brutal sodomy. Go figure.
 
Faithful Puppy
Cost: 4 Significant Charges.
Effect:  This spell draws upon the sexual pain of a location, usually
the Caster's Sanctum to form a Carnal. The Carnal's appearance is
completely up to the caster to determine. The newly formed Carnal is
inclined to be obedient to the Caster as long as it is kept happy and
properly fed. When used inside the Caster's permanent sanctum, a new
Carnal will form there within 72 hours if the previous one is killed.

Major Effects.
Introduce, increase, or decrease a sexual taboo into the collective
unconsciousness. Permanently switch bodies with a Vessel, possibly
becoming younger and curing diseases or disabilities. Make a sexual
slave a permanent extension of your will, and nothing more. Force
anyone to do anything. and enjoy it. 

What You Hear: The Libidomancer.
The Catholic Church has been a haven for powerful Libidomancers for
centuries, but things for them seem to be falling apart. You hear it's
a new cabal of Post-Modern Rapists responsible for it, tearing up the
complacency to increase the sexual paranoia in the world.
Yanagi Go, a Japanese Libidomancer and obsessed hentai fan, is said to
have been the creator of Blessing of Adonis, though in his language he
calls it 'Tenpuku no Seihanmuma' (Celestial Blessing of the Sex
Demon), and his changes are often vulgar and horrific in the finest
mimicry of demon sex anime. The Sleepers would love to shut him down,
but so far anyone sent after him has been found killed in a manner
most grisly, and few want to speculate on how they died.
 
-- 
Jade Hammons

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