Manchurian Candidate

When you complete this conjugate, you target a creature within 10+ 2•fp metres.

Manchurian Candidate

Industry: Neuronetics
Actions: conjugate(main-act, 2hp 1ep 4fp) imp(sv,Resolve,8+M*) | chk(CC-S) +M* on 1(tg), 10+2•fp(range) then cond,driven (see text) for 10 day

If the targeted creature fails a Resolve save they they become programmed to perform some action that is within their capability. based on some trigger that you set. for the next 10 days.

The programmed action can be extreme, including killing one of their companions. The trigger can be a sound, a smell, seeing an object of a particular colour, or any other trigger, but it must be specific and distinctive. It cannot be something that is too common or generic, like whenever a light is switched on, or whenever a footstep is heard. Unless it were a particular light, or the footstep of a particular person. One of the more common triggers is hearing a particular phrase, like “miles to go before you sleep”.

The target remains sensitive to the trigger for the next 10 days. When the conjugate effect is triggered, or the 10 days have passed, the conjugate effect ends.

What makes this conjugate so pernicious is that it is so difficult to detect. It imposes imp(PC,10+M*).

This conjugate only works on biological creatures.