The complete list of "special" actions your characters can do with each level of influence, expanded from Dark Epics, Laws of the Night (Rev.) and Laws of the Night: Guide to the Camarilla. Regular 6.0 influence system actions are not included (click here for the 6.0 Influence rules). For other "special" actions, or for variations on those listed here, please contact the CST at shanelucy @ hotmail.com.
Bureaucracy | Church | Finance | Health | High Society | Industry | Legal | Media | Occult | Police | Politics | Street | Transportation | Underworld | University
Bureaucracy
- Trace utility bills
- Close a small road or park
Disconnect a small residence's utilities
Fake a birth certificate or driver's license
Get public aid (€250) - Close a public school for a single
day
Fake a death certificate, passport, or residential visa
Shut down a minor business on a violation - Fake land deeds
Initiate a department-wide investigation
Initiate a phone tap - Obliterate records of a person on a
city and county level
Rezone areas
Shut down a big business on a violation
Start, stop or alter a city-wide programme or policy - Completely dominate all aspects of the
city's bureaucracy within a city block *
Initiate a major public works programme (a large park or office complex)
Prevent emergency services such as fire protection from responding to a major disaster - Collect taxes (€1,000)
Force an entire neighborhood to build as you see fit
Stop, start or alter a state or regional program or policy - Build or destroy small towns or
suburbs
Control an entire city district *
Rewrite policy on a regional level - Build monuments or stadiums
Have a major building condemned and destroyed on short notice - Completely control city hall*
Rebuild the city as you see fit
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
Church
- Identify most secular members of a
given faith in the local area
Pass as a member of the clergy *
Peruse general church records (baptism, marriage, burial, etc.) - Identify higher church members
Suspend lay members
Track regular church members - Access to private information and
archives of church
Dip into the collection plate (€250)
Find the average church-associated hunter
Open or close a single church - Discredit or suspend higher-level
members
Manipulate regional branches of the church * - Access ancient church lore and
knowledge
Organise major protests - Identify a church member with True
Faith
Stage a "miraculous" event that gains the unofficial approval of the Church - Excommunicate a lay member of the
church
Find an experienced Church associated hunter
Have a church marriage annulled or dissolved - Nominate a member of the clergy for
elevation
Pose as a bishop or other major regional religious figure *
Stage a "miracle" that gains official recognition by the Church - Create or destroy a major cathedral or
temple within the city
Exert minor influence over nationwide Church policy *
Have a member of the clergy excommunicated - Discover the secrets of the modern
Inquisition
Exert major influence over nationwide Church policy *
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
Finance
- Learn about general economic trends
*
Learn about major transactions and financial events *
Learn real motivations for many financial actions of others
Raise capital (€1000) - Raise capital to purchase a small
business (single, small store)
Trace an unsecured small account - Purchase a large business (a few small branches or a single large store or service)
- Manipulate local banking (delay
deposits, some credit rating alterations)
Ruin a small business - Control an aspect of citywide banking
(shut off ATMs, arrange a bank "holiday")
Purchase a major company
Ruin a large business - Control the price of a minor commodity
*
Obliterate all savings and credit for one individual (destroy one level of Resources)
Perform insider trading (€10,000) - Exert minor influence over local stock
prices *
Purchase a minor nationwide corporation - Cause inflation or depression for a
regional area *
Control the price of a major commodity * - Exert major influence over local stock
prices *
Own a major nationwide corporation *
Siphon off all profits from a minor corporation (€100,000) - Create a stock market crash
Influence nationwide economic trends *
Make someone an instant millionaire (€1,000,000)
These actions can temporarily give the character varying degrees of local Fame and may assist the character in dealing with certain NPCs as well as access to temporarily Resource levels while maintaining this action.
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
Health
- Access a person's health records
Fake vaccination records and the like
Get a single Blood Trait of mortal blood
Use public functions of health centers at your leisure * - Access some medical research records
Get a copy of a coroner's report
Have minor lab work done
Instigate minor quarantines - Alter medical records
Corrupt results of test or inspections - Abuse grants for personal use (€250)
Acquire a body
Completely rewrite medical records
Have minor medical research performed on a subject
Institute large scale quarantines
Shut down businesses for "health code violations" - Have people institutionalised or
released
Have special research projects performed - Cause a major shortage of blood within
an area
Prevent ambulances from responding to a major disaster - Contaminate the entire blood supply for
one minor hospital
Locate samples of a minor infectious disease (influenza) - Cause a major shortage of one type of
medicine (insulin, penicillin)
Perform major or illegal experimentation on a large number of patients
Shut down a small hospital permanently - Contaminate the blood supply for an
entire city
Locate samples of a major infectious disease (anthrax)
Shut down a major hospital permanently - Direct genetic engineering projects
Shut down all medical care in a city for an entire day
*These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
High Society
- Learn about concerts, shows or plays
well before the public *
Learn what is trendy
Obtain hard-to-get tickets for shows - "Borrow" idle cash from rich
friends (€1,000)
Be a local voice in the entertainment field *
Track most celebrities and luminaries - Crush promising careers
Hobnob well above your station * - Minor celebrity status *
- Get a brief appearance on a talk show
that's not about to be canceled
Ruin a new club, gallery, festival or other posh gathering - Give someone his or her "15
minutes of fame" (create one level of Fame for one
session)
Own a small but influential theater or gallery in the city - Appoint anyone as a member of the
city's elite social circles
Bring a major traveling concert or play to the city
Destroy the career of a minor established celebrity (destroy one level of Fame) - Become a major celebrity (grant
yourself two levels of Fame) *
Make someone a minor celebrity (create one level of Fame) *
Own a large gallery or theatre in the city * - Influence nationwide fashion trends
*
Make someone a major celebrity (create two levels of Fame) * - Destroy a major celebrity's career
(destroy two levels of Fame)
Create a national fashion or trend
Own the central gallery or theater within the city
ð These actions can temporarily give the character varying degrees of local Fame and may assist the character in dealing with certain NPCs.
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
Industry
- Learn about industrial projects and movements *
- Arrange small accidents or sabotage
Dip into union funds or embezzle petty cash (€500)
Have minor projects performed - Appropriate machinery for a short
time
Organise minor strikes - Close down a small plant
Revitalize a small plant - Manipulate large local industry *
- Attract a major heavy industry to the
area
Illegally dump large amounts of toxic waste (and not get caught) - Eliminate or start a union in any
company
Siphon off company profits (€5,000) - Arrange for a major ecological
disaster
Fatally sabotage a major construction project - Cause a major strike
Own a major heavy industry or construction firm in the area * - Fatally sabotage an entire product of
heavy industry or machinery
Influence nationwide worker movements
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
Legal
- Get free representation for small cases
- Avoid bail for some charge
Have minor charges dropped - Access public or court funds (€250)
Get representation in most court cases
Manipulate legal procedures (small wills, minor contracts, court dates) - Cancel or arrange parole
Have most legal charges dropped
Issue subpoenas
Tie up court cases - Close down all but the most serious
investigations
Have deportation proceedings held against someone - Bring any investigation short of a
(Irish equivalent to grand jury) to a halt
Force a guilty verdict on any misdemeanor trial - Appoint a high court judge
Have a barrister or solicitor disbarred - Force a guilty verdict on a felony
trial
Successfully sue anyone for major damages (destroy one level of Resources) - Appoint or fire the city's District
Attomey
Control one of the members of the Supreme Court - Force a guilty verdict on a major or
sensational felony trial
Rewrite national or local law as you see fit
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
Media
- Learn about breaking stories early *
Submit shall articles (within reason) - Get hold of investigative reporting
information
Suppress (but not stop) small articles or reports - Get project funding and waste it (€250)
Ground stories and projects
Initiate news investigations and reports - [None]
- Broadcast fake stories (local only)
Kill small local articles or reports completely - Cause a minor media outlet to begin an
investigation
Submit headline news successfully - Destroy a minor newspaper or TV
station
Manufacture a major scandal (destroy one level of Fame)
Write small nationwide stories successfully - Cause a major media outlet to begin an
investigation
Kill national news stories before they get off the ground - Broadcast fake regional stories
Destroy a major newspaper or TV station - Create a fake major national news
story
Create a news blackout over an entire city *
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
Occult
- Contact and make use of common occult
groups and their practices *
Know some of the more visible occult figures * - Access resources for most rituals and
rites
Know and contact some of the more obscure occult figures * - Access occult tomes and writings *
Can access vital or rare material components
Know the general vicinity of certain supernatural entities and (possibly) contact them *
Milk impressionable wannabes for bucks (€250)
Research a Basic Ritual from your sect - Research an Intermediate Ritual from your sect
- Access minor magic items *
Unearth an Advanced ritual from your sect - Create your own Basic ritual
Found a local cult (grant one level of Allies Background) *
Learn truthful lore concerning vampires, garou, or changelings - Access major magical items *
Create your own Intermediate ritual
Learn truthful lore conceming wraiths or spirits - Create your own Advanced ritual from
your sect
Found a regional cult (grant two levels of Allies Background) *
Locate and bring a specific hedge mage or medium to you - Access legendary magical items
Locate and bring a specific vampire, garou, or changeling to you - Locate an entire copy of the Book of
Nod or the true lair of a Methuselah
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
Police
- Avoid traffic tickets
Hear police information and rumors *
Learn police procedures * - Avoid minor violations (first
conviction)
Get "inside information"
Have license plates checked - Find bureau secrets
Get copies of an investigation report
Have police hassle, detain or harass someone - Access confiscated weapons or
contraband
Get money, either from the evidence room or as an appropriation (€1,000)
Have some serious charges dropped
Start an investigation - Arrange setups
Have officers fired
Instigate bureau investigations
Institute major investigations - Appropriate contraband or drugs from
the evidence room
Control one aspect of a large city garda station(homicide, dispatch) * - Call for SWAT raids
Have free access to all police facilities *
Have the crime lab "lose" evidence - Completely control the police
department of a suburb or small town *
Have people taken into custody and transferred to city of choice (was extradited across state lines) - Have police chiefs fired
- Complete control of a large city's
police network *
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
Politics
- Be in the know *
Identify real platforms of politicians and parties *
Minor lobbying - Garner inside information on processes,
laws and the like *
Meet small time politicians
Use a slush fund or fund raiser (€1,000) - Sway or alter political projects (local parks, renovations, small construction)
- Dash careers of minor politicians
Enact minor legislation - Enact encompassing legislation
Get your candidate in a minor office - Enact major legislation on the local
level
Get your candidate into a major local office (i.e., mayor of a major city) - Destroy the career of a major local
politician
Get your candidate into a minor national office (i.e. senator) - Enact minor national legislation
Get your candidate into a major national office (i.e. TD) - Embezzle taxpayer money (€10,000)
Engineer a major political scandal - Give major support to a national
political candidate
Propose major national legislation
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
Street
- Identify most gangs and know their
turfs and habits *
Open an ear for the word on the street * - Access small time contraband
Keep a contract or two in most aspects of street life *
Live mostly without fear on the underside of society * - Arrange some service from street people
or gangs
Get pistols or uncommon melee weapons
Often gets insight on other areas of influence * - Can have a word in almost all aspects
of gang operations *
Get hold of a Shotgun, Rifle, Submachine Gun or Heavy Pistol
Mobilise groups of homeless
Panhandle €250 - Control a single medium-sized gang *
- Completely dominate all aspects of a
housing project or slum *
Mark a specific person who enters a low-class area for harassment - Locate exotic weaponry (bombs, sniper
rifles)
Start a small riot - Completely dominate all aspects of a
low-class neighborhood *
Control a large gang * - Locate unique or customized weaponry
Mark a specific person who enters the low-class areas of a city for death - Completely dominate all aspects of the
low-class areas of a major city *
Start a major citywide riot
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
Transportation
- A wizard at what goes where, when, and
why *
Can travel locally quickly and freely * - Arrange passage safe from mundane
threats (sunlight, etc.)
Can track an unwary target if they use public transportation - Avoid most supernatural dangers when
traveling *
Seriously hamper an individual's ability to travel - Route money your way (€500)
Temporarily shut down one form of mass transit - Reroute major modes of travel
Smuggle with impunity * - Bar a person from entering or leaving a city via public transportation
- Attract a major transportation outlet
(i.e., airport) to your city
Halt all public transportation and cargo shipping to a small town *
Siphon off profits from a shipping or trucking firm (€5,000) - Bar a specific form of cargo from
entering or leaving a city
Isolate a small town from any form of transportation (including highways) * - Cause a major transportation
disaster
Completely dominate one aspect of regional transportation (airplanes, trucking, shipping) *
Destroy a major transportation outlet - Bar all cargo from entering or leaving
a major city
Prevent anyone from leaving or entering a city via all forms of transportation (including highways)
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
Underworld
- Locate minor contraband (knives, small-time drugs, etc.)
- Fence minor loot
Hire muscle to rough someone up
Obtain pistols, serious drugs, stolen cars, etc.
Prove that crime pays (and score €1,000) - Arrange a minor "boost"
Collect a substantial amount of silver (enough to convert into a weapon -- small knife, 8 bullets, 3 shotgun shells)
Convert a source of silver into a weapon (small knife, 8 bullets, 3 shotgun shells)
Obtain Heavy Pistol, Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Shotgun, Submachine Gun or a Ballistic Vest - Obtain the following items: Armor
Piercing or Incendiary ammunition or a Reinforced Vest
White-collar crime connections * - Arrange gangland assassinations
Hire a hitman or firebug
Obtain an Assault Rifle or Flame Thrower
Supply local drug needs * - Contract a professional hit
Locate exotic weaponry (bombs, sniper rifles) - Launder money
Supply the drug needs of a large city * - Control the head of a small crime
family *
Locate unique or custom weaponry - Put a price on anyone's head
Start a mob war - Control the head of a large crime
family *
Stage a public assassination, terrorist act or shooting spree (and get away with it)
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
University
- Access to low level university
resources *
Get records up to the secondary level
Know layout and policy of local schools * - Fake secondary school records
Know a contact or two with useful knowledge or skills *
Minor access to facilities *
Obtain college records - Cancel a class
Discredit a student
Faculty favors
Fix grades - Acquire money through a grant (€1,000)
Discredit faculty members
Organise student protests and rallies - Falsify an undergraduate degree
- Create a college class of your
choice
Discredit the head of a college department
Falsify a postgraduate degree - Discredit the president or dean of a
college
Falsify a Ph.D.
Know a contact or two with high levels of Ability or esoteric knowledge * - Appoint the president or dean of a
college
Funnel university funds in your direction (€1,000) - Direct an entire university department
to research a specific problem *
Have a research assistant attached to your service indefinitely (grant one level of Allies) - Destroy or discredit an entire
college
* These actions give 'monthly' access and need to be 'maintained' every month by the character.
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