24 XP
With this power, the vampire may dramatically alter the nature of a target’s reputation, warping her notoriety or granting the target her fifteen minutes. A sinner can become known for saintly reserve and calm. A murderer can be thought innocent. Shifting well-known reputations is more difficult, but no reputation is safe from a skilled practitioner of this art.
Cost: None
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Socialize + Majesty – target’s Composure + Fame Merit
Action: Extended (Consuming Pace)
Over the course of days or weeks, the vampire spreads rumors carefully crafted to turn opinions, and invested with a subtle measure of irrationality and striking certitude. When ten successes are reached these rumors become self perpetuating, and the target gains 1 Fame and, if desired, the Notoriety Flaw. The nature of this fame is entirely up to the vampire to decide, but to create fame for a target outside her normal community requires an additional five successes per point of Fame granted.
Simply shifting the nature of the target’s existing fame requires only five total successes.
The reputation-altering effects of the Whisper Campaign are effectively permanent, and persist until active efforts are made to rehab the altered reputation. Fame created with this devotion will fade if the target does nothing to earn further attention or reinforce the fame for a month per point of Fame.
Example: Her Majesty, the Mistress of Funtopia, grows enchanted with the maverick revenge schemes of Morris Spiegel, and decides to make him justly famous for them. She uses this devotion, and accumulates ten successes over several days of rumor-mongering, but decides to make things more delicious still by extending Morris’s fame beyond the Kindred community. She wants him on TV, and so accumulates another five successes. When Morris arrives in Boston, he finds a composite artist’s sketch of himself on the evening news, branded with the title “the Faircourt firebug.”