MET LARP SRD

Ordinary acolytes have a limited ability to assist a blood magician, often completing mundane tasks such as the collection of ritual ingredients or the lighting of candles. You have found a way to pull such servants to a higher purpose. By eliminating their ability to deviate from instruction, you can draw upon their training to assist you while performing blood magic, incorporating their power into your own.

To use Press-Ganged Coven, you must successfully implant a Mesmerism into your targets via the Dominate power: Conditioning. This Mesmerism instructs your targets to speak arcane words of power when you use a Thaumaturgy or Necromancy power, aiding your magical abilities. When this Conditioning is triggered, each affected character must expend a standard action to use the assist attacker mass combat tactic as if those characters were Stock NPCs, granting you a +1 wild card bonus to attack test pools using your Occult skill. This is an exception to the rule limiting assist attacker bonuses from Stock NPCs to only Physical challenges. You can receive a number of +1 bonuses equal to the number of dots you possess of the Occult skill, regardless of how many conditioned acolytes you have. To any observers, including the targets of any magical attacks, it appears as if the Thaumaturgy or Necromancy power’s effect originates from characters involved in the PressGanged Coven, including both you and your conditioned acolytes, obscuring the source of the blood magic’s effects