← Derangements
Bipolar Disorder
Severe mood crash, then a manic rebound. The crash uses Incapacitated; the rebound uses Compulsion’s five-minute attack penalty.
Trigger
Failing a challenge, or your Blood pool falling to 1 or less.
System
- When triggered, apply Incapacitated: you cannot take actions or move until the trigger is gone, five minutes pass, you take damage, or you are aggressively targeted with a supernatural power.
- When that Incapacitated effect ends, you immediately enter a manic Compulsion for five minutes: you must stay in motion and keep taking actions. You suffer Compulsion’s −3 penalty to attack test pools until those five minutes pass. Defense is not penalized.
- You cannot “fulfill” the mania early. Sitting idle, delaying, or sitting out of a scene is refusing the Compulsion (mark 1 Derangement trait) unless you take the severe response.