                                   MENTEM



   This Discipline grants Furies their incredible powers over memories.

   * Psychometry: The Fury is able to re-live the strong emotions
   experienced in a particular place, or near a specific object if she
   has skin-contact with the object or place. This is similar to the
   Auspex power of The Spirit's Touch, but not the same. The information
   revealed here is in once sense more specific in that it allows the
   Fury to actually experience past events as the original people did,
   but it is also more vague in that the Fury knows nothing about the
   participants of the memory aside from what they were thinking and
   experiencing at the time: the Fury may be able to witness a murder
   taking place from both the murderer's and victim's perspectives, but
   unless the murderer thought "I am John Doe" or the victim thought "My
   God, that's John Doe" the Fury would have nothing to go on aside from
   sight/hearing/etc. Note that the perceptions are also limited by what
   the participants could sense. In other words if the victim was blind
   the Fury would not have any visual input from the victim.

   ** Peering into the Mortal Mind: At this level, the Fury is able to
   read not only the memories of inanimate objects, but also the memories
   of living creatures, and store them within her own mind. This also
   will work on Kindred of equal or lower generation, but the Fury must
   spend a Willpower point to make the attempt.

   *** Summons to the Rage: At this level the Fury is able to sense those
   mortals with great emotions, although anger is by far the easiest (to
   sense anger is at a -3 to the difficulty). If the emotion experienced
   by the mortal is of a great enough intensity it may even physically
   draw the Fury to her. This is the most common way for Furies to find
   their future Progeny.

   **** Summon the Haunting Spirit: This power is mostly used to summon
   to the victim's mind her most horrifying experience, but in truth it
   can be used to make the victim re-live any of her memories. If it is
   used to draw forth a frightening memory, it reduces her to a catanoic
   state for the duration of the effect, and quite possibly gives her a
   permanent Terror Derangement if enough successes are scored. This
   power may be used in conjunction with Peering into the Mortal Mind to
   select among experiences.

   ***** Memory Transfer: At this level of Mentem, the Fury can transfer
   memories stored within her own mind through a touch. This can be used
   with any of the above powers for a combined effect. it is most
   effectively used with either Summon the Haunting Spirit or Peering
   into the Mortal Mind if used as an attack (the level 2 power can be
   combined with Memory Transfer so the Fury may allow a victim to
   experience another's pain).
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