<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=347850.msg16375798#msg16375798">Quote from: Muse on 09-01-2023, 15:46:22</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">  Okay, what if Mephi does a dance and the people around her stop and look, not noticing what other people are doing.  (Entranced)  If they fail badly enough, I can get them to do little things like answer questions and open doors.  (Compelled.)  <br/><br/>  It's the people around her, and she has to dance, working some spellcasting stuff into the dance.  (Close Burst Area.  Concentration?)<br/><br/>  If I can exclude people from it, it would be good, but if that doesn't allow enough points i can just warn my friends to stay away when I'm doing this.  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Okay... let's see what we can make with this.<br/><br/><strong>Increasing Cost</strong>: Affliction (1/rank; Entranced series of effects; may be Dodged (averting eyes), and resisted by Will), Area - Burst (+1/rank), Selective (+1/rank), Concentration (use Standard action each subsequent round to maintain effect and impose new resistance roll without need for new Dodge check: +1/rank), Cumulative (+1/rank)<br/><strong>Lowering Cost</strong>: Limit (requires performance of a dance, necessitating substantial freedom of movement and at least some space: -1/rank), Limit (subjects must be able to clearly<em>perceive </em>that performance: -1/rank), Limited Degree (impact capped at Compelled: -1/rank), Limit (control limited to 'pay attention and politely answer my questions': -1/rank)<br/><strong>Net Result</strong>: 1/rank<br/><br/>I've<em>not</em>added a skill check for the dance since a) there's already a skill check in there for the spell itself, and b) she's cheating with magic, so the quality of the dance probably isn't that important to how well the spell works.  Of course, she could potentially use a Move action to throw in some 'mundanely' impressive dance moves, to better hold people's attention even if they resist her spell. ;)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">  Also is there something i can work itno it, or something similar i can do, to alter people's memories?  <br/><br/>  (MIB has the Flashy Thing.  We have teh scantily clad cat girl!) <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Interesting idea.  On a quick Control-F search through the PDF for a couple of relevant terms... there appears to be<em>no</em>canonical memory-editing power in there!  I think that detailed mind-wiping should definitely be a power unto itself (if it were even possible - and it seems not to be in the setting), but "forget what else was happening while you were watching me dance" might be feasible.<br/><br/>Say....<br/><br/><strong>Increasing Cost</strong>: Linked (0), Area - Burst (+1/rank), and Selective (in its own right; it doesn't automatically mind-blast Mephi's audience, instead only hitting those who succumb to her initial effect and whom she<em>also</em>wants to memory-blur: +1/rank), Affliction (+1/rank: produces effects similar to Entranced and Compelled in terms of blurring or blanking memory of period under its influence (perhaps leaving subjects with happy memories of cat-watching?), cannot be Dodged since it only targets those already 'hit' by primary effect; separately resisted by Will)<br/><strong>Lowering Cost</strong>: Limited Degree (capped at 2nd tier of impact: -1/rank), Limit (only affects memories in specific ways: -1/rank).<br/><strong>Net result</strong>: +1/rank cost onto base power.<br/><br/>Would make for a combined total of 2/rank for the ability.  Given your budget of 28, that'd allow for 10 ranks with room to spare.  Or you could make the memory effect Cumulative as well (the longer they watch, the more chance Mephi has of hijacking their capacity to remember anything other than her from the period of her performance), which'd add 1/rank to cost - and limit you to 'just' the 9 ranks for the effect (with 1 point to spare).<br/><br/>Features could be added to do things like add (probably fairly quiet) ethereal music or light effects, give her an illusory dance costume, or something similar.  Depends on how visibly<em>magical</em>it should be.  If created light and / or sound is potent enough to start overwhelming other sources of such things, that's probably going beyond a simple Feature.