This Song is only useable in the Marches (more
specifically, dreamscapes). It's considered odd, even
there.
Once sung, what looks to be a globule of black ink
appears in front of the singer and follows him or her
around. The 'ink' can be used by throwing it against
the wall (a wall being defined, in a dreamscape, as
anything that the singer decides is a wall). Effects
are as follows:
For one extra Essence, the inkblot is a portable hole:
the singer can reach in and pull out random
dream-fragments (and we mean random). The utility of
this feature is obscure.
Spending three Essence, however, is a better call.
The Singer can climb into the hole: once inside, all
attempts to detect the singer are at -5. The portable
hole is usually ignored by searchers- lots of weird
things in dreamscapes, and it looks too small to hide
anyone.
The most interesting thing to do with one of these
blots, though, is to spend 6 Essence, throw the blot
against the wall, back up and run through. The Singer
pops out into another dreamscape. Pursuers roll one
die: on even numbers, they just slam into the wall.
Cherubic and Djinn resonances are, incidentally,
disrupted by the impact.
On odd numbers, a train, truck (or anything else that
the GM has ever seen a Warner Brothers cartoon do in
this sort of situation) comes out and does 1d6 Mind
Hits to the pursuer from sheer cliched revulsion.
Oddly enough, most players will violently dislike the
idea of rolling dice when they don't like either
outcome, so the GM should take pity on them and roll
the die herself.
This Song was first found as part of a very odd
ethereal artifact in the shape of a Viking hammer.
Users had to swing the hammer to get the 'ink' to
spurt out, but that was more than counterbalanced by
the fact that the user didn't have to spend any
Essence. The holders of that artifact took advantage
of this mostly by running a lot.
Oh, yes, it took a _lot_ of time and dignity before
Heaven was able to get the Thor-blotter properly
studied...
Duration: "ink" sticks around until used.
Essence Cost: 1, plus above.
Degree of Disturbance: none
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