{"id":1756,"date":"2013-06-18T08:51:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2013-06-18T08:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:51:41","slug":"false-memories-a-new-power-for-better-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2013\/06\/false-memories-a-new-power-for-better-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"False Memories – A New Power for ‘Better Angels’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Better-Angels-cover-v4-front-612px\"<\/a>Written by Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n

False Memories (Deceit<\/i>)<\/h1>\n

The ability to falsify recollection is scary on a level different from building-blasting ice-rays or hemorrhage-causing eye-beams. We rely on our memories to be solid and trustworthy because if they aren\u2019t (and, as an aside, science assures us that they are in fact incredibly plastic), we have no basis for deciding about anything<\/i>. Our ideas of judgment are irreparably compromised. Even knowing<\/i> that our memories have been damaged or tampered with (or, again, just understanding the science that they were never factual to begin with<\/i>), we have to treat them as if they can be trusted because the alternative is a morass of indecision and paranoia.<\/p>\n

With this power, you can consign people who irritate you to the depths of that morass.<\/p>\n

To work it, you touch someone and think about the lie you want them to believe.\u00a0 Roll Patient Deceit. <\/i>If it succeeds with sufficient Width and Height, your lie is true to the victim without even being told.<\/b><\/p>\n

Width determines how firm the charade is, while Height determines how long it lasts.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Width<\/b><\/th>\nEffect<\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nMemory is vague and foggy, on the level of \u201cYeah, I think I\u2019ve met this guy,\u201d \u201cOh yeah, I saw some kind of altercation at some bar last week,\u201d or \u201cI took some karate classes, um\u2026 sometime\u2026\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3-4<\/td>\nMemory is sturdy and has some emotional content, unless actual events and recollections contradict it.\u00a0 \u201cI remember you!\u00a0 Jedda Jankes from that crazy summer working at the Pizza Shack!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI was coming out of the Pink Pinto Wednesday night and I saw some guy in a red and blue superhero getup pounding the crap<\/i> out of this fat guy in a green shirt. It was heinous, man!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cOh yeah, I got my brown belt ages and ages ago, but I\u2019m totally out of training\u2026\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5+<\/td>\nMemory is vivid, detailed, and is given assumed to be factual unless and until it is contradicted by overwhelming evidence or a powerful series of other memories. \u201cWhat do you mean \u2018who\u2019s this\u2019? It\u2019s my wife, Jedda! The love of my life!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cClear as day your honor.\u00a0 It was Captain Daylight\u2026 er, the defendant\u2026 and he kept kicking and kicking Mr. Jericho there even though he was begging him to stop!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYou messed with the wrong guy, punk.\u00a0 KI-YAAH!\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Note that false memories don\u2019t provide real skills, though with a 5+ result the GM may shift a Tactic one point left or right to represent motivation.\u00a0 For instance, that guy who truly believes he\u2019s a 9th Dan could shift a point from Cruelty<\/i> to Courage<\/i> from pure misplaced confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Height<\/b><\/th>\nDuration<\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1-2<\/td>\n1 day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3-4<\/td>\n1 week<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5-6<\/td>\n1 month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7-9<\/td>\n1 year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nPermanent<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Memories implanted need to be something that can be written out in fifty words or less, but people tend to imagine reasonable details for them.\u00a0 That\u2019s not even part of the power: Confabulation is a function of normal cognition.\u00a0 I\u2019ve read that in like, three different books.<\/p>\n

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Written by Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013. False Memories (Deceit) The ability to falsify recollection is scary on a level different from building-blasting<\/p>\n

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