MET LARP SRD

There are many legends describing a vampire’s ability to put people under her spell by staring deeply into another person’s eyes. Practitioners of Dominate utilize their strength of will, channeling the force of their personality. With a modest exertion, such a creature can bend minds, implant suggestions, and even control another person’s actions. With a piercing gaze and a forceful word, Dominate can cause the strongest mortal mind to crumble and push even other vampires to submit.

To use this discipline, the vampire must first capture her victim’s attention. The Dominate user then issues verbal orders or communicates through simple, obvious hand gestures. The target can’t comply if she can’t understand the vampire’s commands. Typically, this requires a common language or common physical symbols, such as a pointed finger to indicate a person should “Leave!” Dominate cannot be used to force a target to do something directly self-destructive. Commands such as “shoot yourself in the foot” will automatically fail. However, the Dominate user can issue orders that are not automatically harmful, but might lead to a dangerous situation. A character could Dominate someone to shoot at a group of police officers. This action would almost certainly lead to trouble and possibly get the target harmed, but it is not directly self-destructive.

It is possible for an order issued with Dominate to be initially non-harmful and then become directly harmful later. If this happens, the Dominate breaks just before its implanted orders become directly harmful. If a character forced her target to “walk straight ahead until I say stop,” the target would be forced to move forward. However, she would stop before stepping in front of a bus or walking off a cliff. This power grants the target no supernatural ability to sense when something is dangerous. Therefore, if the victim did not know there was a cliff ahead and could not sense it, the victim would continue walking forward until she realized the danger — which may very well be too late.

Unless specifically stated, Dominate doesn’t impart any special ability to complete extraordinary commands. If a target is ordered to do something that she cannot accomplish, the target will make an effort to obey the command, but may not succeed. If you use Dominate to give the order to “sleep,” your target would lie down and try. But, as most people can’t simply will themselves to sleep in an instant, it’s unlikely the target would truly be able to obey.

“His eyes met mine, and I swear I heard a voice whispering to me. The next thing I knew, officer, I was here.”