Influences

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Bureaucracy

  1. Trace utility bills
  2. Fake a birth certificate or driver's license; Disconnect a single small residence's utilities;Close a small road or park; Get public aid ($250)
  3. Fake a death certificate, passport or green card; Close a public school for a single day; Shut down a minor business on a violation
  4. Initiate a phone tap; Fake land deeds; Initiate a department-wide investigation
  5. Start, stop or alter a city-wide program or policy; Shut down a big business on a violation; Rezone areas; Obliterate records for a person on a city or county level

Church

  1. Identify most secular members of a given faith in the local area; Pass as a member of the clergy; Peruse general church records (baptism, marriage, burial, etc.)
  2. Identify higher church members; Track regular church members; Suspend lay members
  3. Open or close a single church; Find the average church-associated hunter; Dip into the collection plate ($250); Access private information and archives of a church
  4. Discredit or suspend high-level church members; Manipulate regional branches of the church
  5. Organize major protests; Access ancient church lore and knowledge

Finance

  1. Learn about major transactions and financial events; Raise capital ($1,000); Learn about general economic trends; Learn real motivations for many financial actions of others
  2. Trace an unsecured small account; Raise capital to purchase a small business (single store or small service)
  3. Purchase a large business (a few small branches or a single large store or service)
  4. Manipulate local banking (delay deposits, some credit rating alterations); Ruin a small business
  5. Control an aspect of city-wide banking (shut off ATMs, arrange a bank "holiday"); Ruin a large business; Purchase a major company

Health

  1. Access a person's health records; Face vaccination records and the like; Use public functions of health centers at your leisure; Get a single Blood Trait of mortal blood
  2. Access some medical research records; Have minor lab work done; Get a copy of a coroner's report; Instigate minor quarantines
  3. Corrupt results of tests or inspections; Alter medical records
  4. Acquire a body; Completely rewrite medical records; Abuse grants for personal use ($250); Have minor medical research performed on a subject; Institute large-scale quarantines; Shut down businesses for "health code violations"
  5. Have special research projects performed; Have people institutionalized or released

High Society

  1. Learn what is trendy; Obtain hard-to-get tickets for shows; Learn about concerts, shows or plays well before they are made public
  2. Track most celebrities and luminaries; Be a local voice in the entertainment field; "Borrow" idle cash from rich friends ($1,000)
  3. Crush promising careers; Hobnob well above your station
  4. Minor celebrity status
  5. Get a brief appearance on a talk show that's not about to be canceled; Ruin a new club, gallery, festival, or other posh gathering

Industry

  1. Learn about industrial projects and movements
  2. Have minor projects performed; Dip into union funds or embezzle petty cash ($500); Arrange small accidents or sabotage
  3. Organize minor strikes; Appropriate machinery for a short time
  4. Close down a small plant; Revitalize a small plant
  5. Manipulate large local industry

Legal

  1. Get free representation for minor cases
  2. Avoid bail for some charges; Have minor charges dropped
  3. Manipulate legal procedures (minor wills and contracts, court dates); Access public or court funds ($250); Get representation in most court cases
  4. Issue subpoenas; Tie up court cases; Have most legal charges dropped; Cancel or arrange parole
  5. Close down all but the most serious investigations; Have deportation proceedings held against someone

Media

  1. Learn about breaking stories early; Submit small articles (within reason)
  2. Suppress (but not stop) small articles or reports; Get hold of investigative reporting information
  3. Initiate news investigations and reports; Get project funding and waste it ($250)
  4. Ground stories and projects
  5. Broadcast fake stories (local only); Kill small local articles or reports completely

Occult

  1. Contact and make use of common occult groups and their practices; Know some of the more visible occult figures
  2. Know and contact some of the more obscure occult figures; Access resources for most rituals and rites
  3. Access vital or rare material components; Milk impressionable wannabes for bucks ($250); Access occult tomes and writings
  4. Learn of signs of local supernatural activity and possibly contact those involved
  5. Access occult artifacts and rare occult writings; Control a small cult or circle

Police

  1. Learn police procedures; Hear police information and rumors; Avoid traffic tickets
  2. Have license plates checked; Avoid minor violations (first conviction); Get "inside information"
  3. Get copies of an investigative report; Have police hassle, detain or harass someone; Find out bureau secrets
  4. Access confiscated weapons or contraband; Have some serious charges dropped; Start an investigation; Get money, either from the evidence room or as an appropriation ($1,000)
  5. Institute major investigations; Arrange setups; Instigate bureau investigations; Have officers fired

Politics

  1. Minor lobbying; Identify real platforms of politicians and parties; Be in the know
  2. Meet small-time politicians; Garner inside information on processes, laws and the like; Use a slush fund or a fund-raiser ($1,000)
  3. Sway or alter political projects (local parks, renovations, small construction)
  4. Enact minor legislation; Dash careers of minor politicians
  5. Get your candidate in a minor office; Enact encompassing legislature

Street

  1. Open an ear for the word on the street; Identify most gangs and know their turfs and habits
  2. Live mostly without fear on the underside of society; Keep a contact or two in most aspects of street life; Access small-time contraband
  3. Get insight into other areas of Influence; Arrange some services from street people or gangs; Get pistols or uncommon melee weapons
  4. Mobilize groups of homeless; Panhandle or hold a "collection" ($250); Get hold of a shotgun, rifle or SMG; Have a word in almost all aspects of gang operations
  5. Control a single medium-sized gang; Arrange impressive protests by street people

Transportation

  1. Know what goes where, when and why; Travel locally quickly and freely
  2. Track an unwary target if he uses public transportation; Arrange passage safe (or at least concealed) from mundane threads (robbery, terrorism, sunlight, etc.)
  3. Seriously hamper an individual's ability to travel; Avoid most supernatural dangers when traveling (such as Lupines)
  4. Shut down one form of transportation (bus lines, ships, planes, trains, etc.) temporarily; Route money your way ($500)
  5. Reroute major modes of travel; Smuggle with impunity

Underworld

  1. Locate minor contraband (knives, small-time drugs, petty gambling, scalped tickets)
  2. Obtain pistols, serious drugs, stolen cars; Hire muscle to rough someone up; Fence stolen loot; Prove that crime pays (and score $1,000)
  3. Obtain a rifle, shotgun, or SMG; Arrange a minor "hit"; Meet someone in "the Family"
  4. Make white-collar crime connections
  5. Arrange gangland assassinations; Hire a demolition man or firebug; Supply local drug needs

University

  1. Know layout and policy of local schools; Have access to low-level university resources; Get records up to the high school level
  2. Know a contact or two with useful knowledge or Abilities; Have minor access to facilities; Fake high school records; Obtain college records
  3. Call in faculty favors; Cancel a class; Fix grades; Discredit a student
  4. Organize student protests and rallies; Discredit faculty members
  5. Falsify an undergraduate degree


From Laws of the Night, Revised ©1999 White Wolf Publishing

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