Whirling Brush Method

Cost: 4m
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK

4m: User can write at [Essence × 10] times normal speed.

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Flawless Brush Discipline

Cost: 8m
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK Emotion

8m: [Essence + Linguistics] to determine beauty of writing. Roll [Charisma + Performance] when writing. Readers with lower MDV feel adoration or love for User as unnatural influence. Target can spend 3wp to break commitment, 1wp to resist for scene. Target cannot be affected again for one year.

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Letter-Within-a-Letter Technique

Cost: 6m
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK

6m: Hide a message within another written work. Only intended targets can perceive it. Hidden content may include natural or unnatural mental influence. Add [Linguistics] automatic successes to Socialize surprise roll.

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Discerning Savant's Eye

Cost: 6m, 1wp
Duration: One scene
Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK

6m, 1wp: Understand encoded, obscured, or hidden communication as though clear. Opposes concealing effects such as Letter-Within-a-Letter Technique. Cannot be surprised by social attacks while active.

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Sagacious Reading of Intent

Cost: 3m
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK Social

3m: Perfectly negates a social attack whose underlying intent is fundamentally hostile to the user or their Motivation.

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Poetic Expression Style

Cost: 3m
Duration: One scene
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK

3m: Removes external penalties for conveying tactical or strategic necessities across language barriers. Does not apply to social or military actions.

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Excellent Emissary's Tongue

Cost: —
Duration: Varies
Type: Permanent
Keywords: —

0m: Roll [Intelligence + Linguistics] every 5 long ticks of conversation or 1 page of reading to learn a language, using a Linguistics Excellency. Difficulty varies by exposure. In social conflict, all participants gain +3 MDV.

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Twisted Words Technique

Cost: 6m, 1wp
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK Compulsion Illusion

6m, 1wp: An unnatural written social attack. Readers with too-low MDV accept the belief unless they spend 3wp. They may resist for the scene with 1wp. Each previous use this story grants the target +3 MDV.

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Unbreakable Fascination Method

Cost: 10m, 1wp
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple (Dramatic Action)
Keywords: Combo-OK Obvious

10m, 1wp: User speaks before a crowd; anima flares to totemic. All who hear must listen unless defended by Charm. Roll [Charisma + Linguistics] vs. audience MDV. Members may resist for one action with Temperance success or 1wp. Effects end when the user stops speaking.

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