order

To become another is to magnify a secret part of oneself. The Order studies the hundred secret selves - roles, stock characters, destinies - and invokes them in ritualized theatre.
 
Each of the secret selves can be aroused with costumes, accents, turns-of-phrases. For the Lady-beyond-death, the costume is a long red wig and massive false breasts.

If you are reading this, you are a member of The Comprehensive Order of Welcome Characters.

Yours is a Society of actors and playwrights.

You are expected to support the arts, and to be cordial with your fellows. You may be asked to secure funding for auspicious productions, or the skull of a relative. You may be asked to donate blood (yours or another's).

When you die, you are expected to give away your body to the Order. It will then be secretly entombed, such that you may join Her in the Palace-beyond-death.

In theatro ludus.

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SKILLS - CANTRIPS

• History - You may ask one question of a skull or dead body.
  • If you are related to them, you may ask another.
  • If you know their true name, they cannot lie to you.
  You must test CHA to do this again before the next full moon.
• Seduction - You may ask Her questions about sex. You can keep someone engaged in conversation with you for an hour to the exclusion of all else.
• Swordplay - You may ask Her questions about war. When a fight breaks out, you can draw a sword from anywhere in the room as if it had been on your hip the whole time.
• Disguise - You may ask Her questions about drama. In a crowded scene, if your exact position hasn't been established yet, you can declare that any generic NPC was actually you in disguise.
• Couture - You may ask Her questions about art. Fancy clothes give you a +2 AC bonus, plus an additional +2 AC for every 100g spent on the outfit, up to twice your level.
• Statecraft - You may ask Her questions about politics. When you speak, all listeners must Save or be silent for the duration of your speech. If they are fighting, they must do so quietly.
• Parapsychology - You may ask Her questions about magic. So long as you are not disliked by the local ghosts, you may request the assistance of a spectral hand. It can move light objects slowly and is not strong enough to deal damage.
• Genealogy - You may ask Her questions about family. You are related to whoever you need to be related to, however distantly. All family heirlooms technically belong to you, and you could show up at any family reunion or reading of the will.

At B template, you also learn the rite of worldly possession, by which one summons a daemon. You or another can serve as the host, and there is a 5-in-6 chance (rolled secretly) that the daemon overpowers the host, reduced by 1-in-6 for each of the following:

    The host wears an appropriate costume.
    The host has the daemon's preferred blood type.
    The host imbibes a bowl of the daemon's preferred blood type.
    The host is particularly inbred (+3 or more). 

At C template, you can invite Her into your body. She has a voice like thunder, +8 to-Hit, and cannot be silenced, spoken over, interrupted, drowned out, suffocated, or harmed by swords.