compulsion permissions.
As his exposure to an eldritch entity changes him, Jon has been gaining the ability to compel people to answer his questions truthfully.
At first he did it accidentally (marked in the podcast by a small hiss of static over his questions) but now he is aware of his ability, though not at all practiced in it. While it can be used to get a yes/no answer, or the person can be recalitrant and he may have to ask follow up questions, typically the power encourages people to give a complete statement, including information like what actions they took and why, and what they were thinking and feeling at the time, whether or not they would normally be comfortable disclosing that information. (here's a screencap of the opening of a statement as an example of what I mean.)
While compulsion mostly seems to only elicit verbal information, a couple of times Jon's compulsion has caused someone to do something to assist him to get information, such as when the police gave him tapes from evidence, or when people write him statements. He also sometimes just "knows" something. This won't be used at all in games, consider it nerfed.
When Jon reads a written statement of a true and unique supernatural encounter aloud into a tape recorder, he feels as though he becomes the person who made the statement, taking on their accent and vocal tics, and seeing and feeling what they saw and felt. This greatly tires him — even one a week takes its toll, and more than three a week and he passes out. Taking verbal statements and using his power also adds to this exhaustion.
Supernatural creatures can often be aware of or even resist his compulsion. In addition, anyone in a Dreamwidth game with him is welcome to resist him as many times as necessary. Whether Jon uses the power deliberately or accidentally, it is up to you the player to decide whether or not it works, and whether or not the other person knows.
If you want to opt out of this ever happening, or opt in because you have an idea of things to do with it or specific truths you want drawn out, or if you just have other questions about the power, leave a comment on this post! All comments are screened.
At first he did it accidentally (marked in the podcast by a small hiss of static over his questions) but now he is aware of his ability, though not at all practiced in it. While it can be used to get a yes/no answer, or the person can be recalitrant and he may have to ask follow up questions, typically the power encourages people to give a complete statement, including information like what actions they took and why, and what they were thinking and feeling at the time, whether or not they would normally be comfortable disclosing that information. (here's a screencap of the opening of a statement as an example of what I mean.)
While compulsion mostly seems to only elicit verbal information, a couple of times Jon's compulsion has caused someone to do something to assist him to get information, such as when the police gave him tapes from evidence, or when people write him statements. He also sometimes just "knows" something. This won't be used at all in games, consider it nerfed.
When Jon reads a written statement of a true and unique supernatural encounter aloud into a tape recorder, he feels as though he becomes the person who made the statement, taking on their accent and vocal tics, and seeing and feeling what they saw and felt. This greatly tires him — even one a week takes its toll, and more than three a week and he passes out. Taking verbal statements and using his power also adds to this exhaustion.
Supernatural creatures can often be aware of or even resist his compulsion. In addition, anyone in a Dreamwidth game with him is welcome to resist him as many times as necessary. Whether Jon uses the power deliberately or accidentally, it is up to you the player to decide whether or not it works, and whether or not the other person knows.
If you want to opt out of this ever happening, or opt in because you have an idea of things to do with it or specific truths you want drawn out, or if you just have other questions about the power, leave a comment on this post! All comments are screened.