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Description Cacophony Make an object irresistibly desirable to all humans present. Causes anyone affected to gain the obsessed condition and will actively work to gain the object and prevent anyone else having it.

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Manipulation + Expression Vs. Integrity + Causes a target to no longer care about social repercussions for their actions. Causes all appeals to Manipulation Anarchism Politics peers, law or authority to be ignored. Composure When the target tries to use a skill selected by the Embed user, they will instead use a different Wits + Medicine Breakdown skill from the same category (Social, Physical, Mental). - Resolve Manipulation + Bystander Effect Attack someone in plain few without anyone else choosing to intervene. Intimidation Cause and Invoking the Butterfly effect and providing an unrelated stimulus, the Demon causes a small Wits + [any Effect event of nearly any sort to take place in their presence. Skill] Combustion The Demon renders almost any object flammable or prone to explosion. Wits + Science Manipulation + Cool Heads Prevents or ends a combat immediately, as those involved relax. Empathy Prevail Composure Manipulation + Deafen Literally deafens a select victim. Medicine Stamina Manipulation + Devil's Causes a victim to reflexively take the opposite stance to the demon's most recently stated Subterfuge Advocate position. Resolve Activates alarms or sirens in the nearby area, penalising the perception rolls of anyone who does Wits + Science Fire Drill not know it is a false alarm by the Demon's Primum. Encodes an action that has previously been performed to happen again under the same Requires an exceptional success or a success on a chance die to perform. Fractal Reality circumstances. Wits + Science Repeating that action (performing an action with the same skill) will automatically cause an exceptional success on a single success. All future uses after that are penalised with no 10-again. Manipulation + Hesitation Forces a target to react slowly, potentially penalizing initiative. Intimidation Resolve Dexterity + Hush Silences a combat, allowing it to take place unheard by those nearby. Brawl - Defense Apple of Discord

Just Bruised

Allows the demon to mitigate the damage taken from almost any source.

Knockout Punch Knock out a victim with a single blow for a defined period. Left or Right?

Force the outcome of an event that contains only two possibilities, such as a coin flip.

Lucky Break Merciless Gunman

The demon achieves a specific desired ends through random chance.

No Quarter

The demon intensifies a fight, causing all those involved to aim to kill or maim their opponents, refusing to back down.

On the Mend Password Entropy Play Possum

Heals a target, potentially even of aggravated damage.

Raw Materials Ripple Sabotage Shatter Shifty Eyes Special Someone Trip Victory at any Price Ambush Call Out

Enables the demon to casually massacre large numbers of individuals quickly with a firearm.

When entering a password in a computer or machine, you will enter the correct password. Die for a number of hours equal to Primum, after which time come back to life. Damage taken after 'dying' is restored, but wounds suffered prior remain. The demon breaks an object, causing a new object of similar size but of the demon's choosing to appear in the location by happenstance not long after. Causes a ripple effect with the entire scene suffering misfortune and extra damage. Any damage taken will be suffered again next turn with the same severity and half the total amount of damage from a secondary but related source. With a touch, the demon cripples a device such that it will no longer function until repaired.

Wits + Medicine Dexterity + Brawl - Defense Manipulation + Science Manipulation + Occult Dexterity + Firearms Manipulation + Brawl vs. Resolve Wits + Medicine Wits + Computer Manipulation + Medicine Manipulation + Crafts Wits + Science

Dexterity + Crafts Allows the demon to utterly destroy small objects with a touch. Wits + Crafts Manipulation + Causes a victim to distrust another chosen individual. Subterfuge Resolve Allows the demon to stumble upon an individual matching certain desired criteria, though never a Wits + Empathy specific person. Wits + Athletics Causes someone to trip over and suffer the "Knocked Down" tilt. Dexterity Increase the number of successes on the prior roll by one. The result of the "Victory at any Price" Wits + Science roll determines the toll the Demon pays in blood for use of this ability. Instrumental Prepare a perfect ambush for some victims, gaining surprise for the first round of a combat. Wits + Stealth Weakens the desire of a target's allies to continue fighting. The target's allies will easily suffer the Manipulation + beaten down tilt, run away or surrender after minor damage. Intimidation vs. Presence +

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Supernatural Tolerance The demon curses a combat with imprecision and confusion, such that all firearm attacks that do Manipulation + Check Backdrop not take at least one turn aiming will automatically miss. Firearms capable of viewing any data that a device has ever recorded or observed, but only at the Wits + Computer Data Retrieval Become time point that you specify. Deletes electronic data more completely, penalises any attempts to recover the data by the Data Wipe Wits + Computer Demon's Primum. Download Wits + Temporarily grants bonus Skill dots to a Demon. Knowledge Computers Wits + Efficiency Enables the demon to perform extended actions and tasks with greatly increased speed. Academics Manipulation + Ellipses Causes a victim to get engrossed in some distracting activity. Expression + Perfectly blocks a victim from being capable of spending or acquiring any form of money for one Manipulation Freeze Assets Academics day. Resources Fulcrum Point Functional Identity Fungible Knowledge High of Birth Knock-Off Like I Built It

Moves even very large objects a short distance with a simple push. Change the functional purpose of a tool, allowing you to use its bonuses towards a different purpose. Swaps the demon's skill ratings for a scene. Retroactively alters a human's fate so that they become wealthy or gifted and gain merits. A week later, the God Machine will send an angel to investigate the individual. Dramatically change the value of an object, or change an equipment bonus. Grants the demon the ability to perfectly use and understand an object or structure, gaining bonus dice to its use.

The Map Is Not Inhibits a victim's ability to gain any sort of knowledge or benefit from printed materials. The Territory Fills the demon's ears with a comforting sound, that grants bonuses to resist distraction or Miles Away suffering. Allows the demon to use any other character's action to springboard their own, granting bonus Momentum dice based off that character's roll. Manipulates probability so that the Demon will "discover" that a door, window or other entrance Open Sesame to somewhere is unlocked. Read Hostility Grants the ability to the demon or others to sense hostile intentions of new arrivals to the scene. Right Tools, Allows the demon to use virtually any tool for any task. Right Job Shift Transfer the burden of some baleful effect, such as harm or embarrassment, from a beneficiary to Consequences someone or something else. Soup Up

Improves a vehicle's stats to closely resemble that often depicted in Hollywood.

Strike First

Moves a demon to the top of the Initiative order, even if they were surprised.

Synthesis

Scans a scene, psychometrically determining the cause of recent changes. a person or object, allowing the demon to unerringly be capable of finding it for several Tag & Release Marks days. Tools Into Toys Penalizes the use of tools in a task, possibly even rendering it impossible. Trivia

Changes the nature of Trivia in the world so that it becomes truth.

Turn Blade

Significantly reduces the damage from incoming melee weapons.

Wasted Time

Makes an action take twice as long to complete, due to hiccups and small issues that go wrong. Mundane Allows the demon to briefly dislocate from her cover, performing actions elsewhere and unsuspected.

Alibi Associate and Integrate Authorized Clothes Make the Man Cuckoo's Egg Deep Cover Diversion Don't I Know

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Manipulation + Stealth Manipulation + (Vs. Change a single fact about the relationship between two people. Can be detected by unseen sense. Socialise Resolve + Composure) Manipulation + Allows the demon to convince anyone that they have the legal right to be where they are doing Intimidation what they are doing. Intelligence Wits + Change total dots in the target skill to three and one speciality OR gain three specialities and one Persuasion Vs. extra dot in the target skill temporarily, but the demon is branded an Impostor. Wits + Target Skill Allows the demon to replace an object with another of comparable size, while forcing the owner Dexterity + to fail to notice. Larceny Allows for the Spoof ability to make the user appear as another Supernatural type. Allows the Manipulation + ability to determine the flavour of supernatural after the first time experiencing being observed Occult magically. Manipulation + Forces some targets to look away from a desired area, and to not look back for some time. Expression Causes a target to find the demon a reminder of familiar faces, improving the demon's social Manipulation +

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standing with the target.

Subterfuge Resolve Manipulation + Infects a victim with a consuming thought, which penalizes perception and focus. Expression Composure Temporarily turn yourself into a human. Wits + Socialise + Manipulates the memories of participants in a previous scene, forcing all witnesses to believe a Manipulation Subterfuge cover story to explain its events chosen by the demon. Resolve Manipulation + Forces a victim into a deep sleep for several hours, while the demon usurps their identity. Subterfuge Manipulation + Prevents listeners from mundanely eavesdropping on the demon's conversations. Socialize Allows the demon to produce a random instance of virtually any desired object from their pocket, Dexterity + provided it has not been established as not being there already. Larceny Manipulation + Jams the ability of angels and the God-Machine to detect demons in an area. Subterfuge Allows the demon to detect hidden objects in an area and grants bonuses to find them, though it Wits + Larceny does not inform the demon what those objects might be. After having scored an exceptional success or a failure on an action, contrived circumstance allows for a dramatic turnaround, or change in the user's fortunes. The change in fortune results Wits + in that action having been performed with a single success, but with a narrative twist. The Academics narrative twist is beneficial if it was an exceptional success, but negative if it was a failure previously. Allows the demon to specify a target individual to be a "living recorder" for specific duration. Manipulation + The demon can later touch the recorder and experience all that they did during this period. Investigation Enables the demon to remain perfectly undetectable by mundane means so long as they hide in a Wits + Stealth crowd of at least ten people. Curses a victim such that they lose the ability to comprehend all attempts at communication, in Manipulation + any medium, for a short time. Academics Manipulation + Causes the Demon and the target to be mistaken for each other for a number of hours. Persuasion Composure Targets of this Embed are forced to forget the demon was even present in a previous scene at all, Manipulation + instead coming up with their own explanations for events she caused there. Stealth - Resolve Forcing onlookers and the general area to try to rationalize what they witness, the demon gains a Manipulation + bonus to compromise rolls for manifesting obviously supernatural effects like Exploits and Persuasion Demonic Transformations. Causes a brief psychic split. The demon can feed fabricated information to a telepathic read, and Wits + can multitask a pair of Mental actions. Subterfuge Wits + Allows a Legend to remain active permanently, instead of disappearing at the end of a scene. Academics Manipulation + Instantly transforms the demon's outfit to meet desired specifications. Subterfuge Assume the identity of a dead person, which for the period which the Embed is active replaces Manipulation + the real identity of your cover. Politics Manipulation + For one scene, strips a victim of their ability to identify themselves to anyone, even those Subterfuge intimately familiar with them. Composure Dexterity + Traps a supernatural being in their current form, preventing them from changing. Demon (or non- Brawl Vs. human supernatural) forms cannot turn into humans, human-forms cannot turn into demon forms Stamina + temporarily and Demons in cover cannot separate from their cover in any way. Supernatural Tolerance Manipulation + Vaporizes all physical traces of the demon from a scene. Investigation Manipulation + Causes the target to speak nothing but the whole truth about a subject. Empathy Composure Vocal Manipulation + Enables the demon to whisper to any target or targets he can see. Subterfuge Manipulation + Issues a task to an animal. Animal Ken Tasks an animal with delivering a message to a specific person, who will be able to comprehend Manipulation + the creature's expression. Animal Ken Manipulation + Allows the demon to lend out their skill dots and specialties to other people. [Granted Skill] Causes a target to operate based on faulty information that "everyone knows", penalizing a skill Manipulation + roll. Science Enables the demon to understand any conversation he can see. Wits + Empathy Manipulation + Sparks a vile rumor about a victim, which rapidly spreads memetically. Subterfuge Informs the demon of who in a group would most desire to talk about a particular topic, and Wits + Empathy grants bonuses to encourage them to do so. Manipulation + Forces a mortal to make an honest and heartfelt response to the last thing the demon said. Empathy (Composure) Wits + Empathy Informs the demon of the target's Aspirations, Virtue, and Vice. Composure Causes a spark of clarity in humans that allows them to see the world free of the God Machine Manipulation +

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and grants conditions appropriate to such a life-changing event. When in eye contact, gives a look that causes total body paralysis while maintained. The victim will slowly die of organ failure or pass out if The Look is maintained for an extended period, but external damage breaks the effect. Use social activity to cause a target to speak freely about information that they would not otherwise share, removing Doors. The victim passes out with only a hazy memory of the interaction afterwards. The demon whispers a short tune or phrase which anyone present is forced to complete, ruining stealth and ambushes. Forces a miscommunication in a conversation between two targets, which the demon then gets bonuses to exploit.

Persuasion Manipulation + The Look Intimidation Stamina Manipulation + Loose Lips Socialise Stamina Manipulation + Marco Polo Persuasion Composure Mercury Manipulation + Retrograde Subterfuge - Wits Manipulation + Muse Instills an idea in a target, and grants the demon bonuses to encourage the target to act on it. Expression Resolve Manipulation + The Only Word Causes a person to only say what the Demon wants them to say. Can either apply generally to Expression That Matters everything the target says, or can be coded for specific trigger events. Composure Recurring Curses a victim with nightmarish hallucinations that last for days, penalizing all Mental and Manipulation + Hallucinations Social rolls and forcing regular breaking points. Occult - Resolve Remote LinkAllows a Demon to create sensory links between another individual or a group of individual that Wits + Socialise Up allows them to share their natural senses (e.g. vision or hearing.) Causes the target to temporarily support the Demon's argument in a debate, removing a Door and Wits + Rhetoric being temporarily sympathetic to the Demon's point of view. Subterfuge Social Grants the demon knowledge of the dynamics and status of all those within a group, granting Wits + Socialize Dynamics bonuses to social interactions that exploits this knowledge. Manipulates a target into divulging information that they shouldn't under normal circumstances. Social Manipulation + The information also provides a +1 bonus to a later, related Computer, Investigation or Engineering Persuasion Persuasion roll. a secret message into a medium such as a song or a work of art, intended for a particular Manipulation + Special Message Instills recipient, who will understand the message when they are exposed to the media in question. Expression Strength Causes a target to suffer incredible hardship that lasts for several days and escalates over that Manipulation + Through period. Once the effect ends, the hardship disappears but the target may come out ahead having Intimidation Adversity laboured under conditions that are resolved. Resolve Learn a target's fears, breaking points, loved ones, derangements or Conditions that could be Wits + Empathy Sum of all Fears exploited to scare them. Composure all those present on the scene with the inability to communicate with anyone else for a Manipulation + Tower of Babel Curses few turns. Socialize Manipulation + Trick of the Causes a single target to see a fleeting and vague illusion of the demon's specifications. Investigation Light Wits + Inflicts a victim with crippling paranoia, preventing them from making use of merits that depend Manipulation Trust No One Subterfuge on others, or even to interact casually with friends. Resolve Voice of the Allows the demon to listen in to what the God-Machine is saying in an area, which may inform Wits + Craft Machine what angels are up to or other such knowledge. Change your voice to perfectly imitate any other voice or mimic other sounds previously heard as Manipulation + Vox the Demon sees fit. Expression Retrieved from "http://wodcodex.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Embeds_(2nd_Edition)&oldid=44397" Categories: Demon: the Descent 2nd Edition

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