... in the Tom Lehrer sense (i.e., "Every now and then
I play a wrong note").
This highly obnoxious Discord causes the sufferer to
be perpetually out of tune with the Symphony. Every
time a Modal celestial wishes to use his, her or its
base resonance, it must first make a successful
Perception and/or Will roll, minus the level of the
Discord. If this roll is failed, the celestial will
instead get access to a limited version of some other
Choir/Band resonance. This is often dangerous, and
always frustrating.
The new resonance is determined as follows: take the
CD of the failed roll and count down (or up) the
hierarchy. The two hierarchies are reproduced for
your convenience:
Seraph: Detects truth at the equivalent of CD 1.
Cherub: Knows location of the target for the next five
minutes, but can't hurt him or her.
Ofanite: Suddenly accelerates at the greater of (2x current
speed) or 30 mph.
Elohite: Knows the primary emotional state of the target, but
unfortunately the volume control is broken. The
sudden shock will give a -3 to all other actions that
round.
Malakite: Sees the most dishonorable act done by the target in
the last day. Also gets the first Malakite oath for
five minutes.
Kyriotate: Takes possession of the target for (Will) rounds
before succumbing to extreme sensory shock (3D6 Mind
Hits).
Mercurian: Gets the Mercurian resonance at CD 1 for five rounds.
Balseraph: Can resonate one person automatically (CD of 1): that
person gets a +2 to resist.
Djinn: Same as the Cherub resonance, really.
Calabite: Does (Modal Level) Body Hits to the target.
Habbalite: Projects the demon's current emotional state onto the
target (CD of 1)
Lilim: Detects a single level/1 Need... but no Geas if
fulfilled.
Shedite: Same as the Kyriotate resonance, except that the Mind
Hit damage is 4D6.
Impudite: Can Charm, but not Drain Essence: the maximum CD for
the former is 1.
Note that Grigori and Skulkers are not on this list;
also, jump to the top (and/or the bottom, as
appropriate) of the list as necessary.
For example: a Malakite with Modal fails her
Perception roll, with a CD of 4. She will count down
four spots (Kyriotate, Mercurian, Seraph, Cherub):
now, instead of confirming someone's dishonor, she
instead detects their location and is prohibited from
hurting them. An Impudite that failed his Will roll
with the same CD will count up (Shedite, Lilim,
Habbalite, Calabite): so, instead of Charming someone,
he's just caused them Body Hits.
As for unfavorable Interventions, well, the poor
unfortunate will suddenly develop access to the
resonance of their opposite numbers (Malakite get the
Lilim resonance, and vice versa). This will always be
dissonant!
As a general rule, Superiors seriously dislike seeing
their Servitors go Modal: most will immediately remove
or replace it (or just destroy the Servitor in
question). Thus, most celestials suffering from it
are Outcasts and/or Renegades.
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