Hiyas!

When I read the "Failsafe" Trait for the Mind Cleansed Origin Package (in the Inquisitor's Handbook ) I was a bit confused. What exaclty is the failsafe? A sort of remote control device, an "audio do-hicky" (w/a special tone only for the mind cleansed's ears), what? How do you GM it?

Thanks!

L

The Fail-Safe is anything you want it to be. Mind-Cleansed have had their heads essentially re-programmed; whatever the Inquisitors didn't want them to know/remember.etc is ripped out of their head (possibly with essential parts of their memory) and if the Inquisitor so decides, is replaced with something else. Part of the new "programming" the Mind-Cleansed receive is an incredibly deep conditioning that puts them in a "Puppet" state if they hear the trigger. The trigger could be some random word, a special tone emitted by a device, a phrase, anything really.

But when the Mind-Cleansed hears it they are afflicted by the Dominate telepathic power, and they may be told to do anything by the person that triggered the code phrase. However, if the action is against their nature or directly harmful to them, they get a bonus to it.

How to GM it? Essentially its just a free Dominate that is automatically implanted into the PC, that can be triggered by either verbal command, telepathic command, sonic noise.etc.etc. Its a "in case **** happens", because they had to go through something rather messy if they got mind-wiped, and they don't know how they turned out.

Rakiel said:

I was thinking that if the failsafe would be too "common", like a code-word, then anyone would be able to command the MC!

Thanks!

L

Yeah, thats why they suggest not using it - the most common by memory (read the little thing on it for details) is stuff like telepathic key phrases, or specific sonal tones, something they would risk being exposed to randomly.