Influence Guidelines

Guidelines to allies / influence levels with descriptions for use.

Bureaucracy

Governmental and business offices, paper and electronics records, licences, utilities; the creation and cutting of red tape.

1. Trace Utility bills
   
2. Fake a birth certificate/driver's license; Disconnect a small residence; Close a small road/park; Get public aid ($500)
   
3. Fake a death certificate/passport/green-card; Close a school for a day; Shut down a small business on a minor violation
   
4. Initiate a phone tap; Fake land deeds; Initiate department wide investigation
5. Start/stop/alter city wide program/policy; Shut down big business on a violation; Rezone area's; Obliterate records of a person in a city area
   
6. Initiate a major public works program (a large park or office complex); Completely dominate all aspects of the city's bureaucracy within a city block; Prevent emergency services such as fire protection from responding to a major disaster
   
7. Stop, start, or alter a state or regional program or policy; Force an entire neighbourhood to build as you see fit; Collect taxes ($1,000)
   
8. Build or destroy small towns or suburbs; Control an entire city district; Rewrite policy on a state or regional level
   
9. Have a major building condemned and destroyed on short notice; Build monuments or stadiums
   
10. Completely control the mayor's office; Rebuild the city as you see fit
    

Church

The non-secular world; organised religion of all faiths.

1. Identify most secular members; 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/close a single church; Find average church hunter; Dip into collection plate ($500); Access private information and archives of a church
   
4. Discredit/suspend high level church members; Manipulate regional branches of a church
   
5. Organise major protests; Access ancient church lore/knowledge
   
6. Identify a church member with true faith; Stage a "miraculous" event that gains un-official approval from the church
   
7. Excommunicate a lay member of the church; Have a church marriage anulled/dissolved; Find an experienced church hunter
   
8. Pose as a Bishop/other major regional figure; Nominate a member of the clergy for elevation; Stage a "miracle" that gains official recognition from the church
   
9. Create/destroy a major cathedral/temple in your city; Exert minor influence of nationwide church policy; Have a member of the clergy excommunicated
   
10. Exert major influence over nationwide church policy; Discover secrets of the modern inquisition
    

Finance

All things monetary; banks, investment firms, brokers.

1. Learn about major transaction/financial events; Raise capital ($2,000); Learn general economic trends; Learn real motivations of transaction
   
2. Trace an unsecured small account; Raise capital to purchase a small business; Raise capital ($4,000)
   
3. Purchase a large business; Raise capital ($8,000)
   
4. Manipulate local banking (delay deposits, alter credit rating); Ruin a small business; Raise capital ($16,000)
   
5. Control an aspect of city wide banking (shut off ATM's, arrange bank holiday); Ruin a large business; Purchase a major company; Raise capital ($32,000)
   
6. Obliterate all savings and credit for one person (destroy one level of resources); Control the price of a minor commodity; Perform insider trading ($10,000)
   
7. Exert minor influence over local stock prices; Purchase a nationwide corporation
   
8. Control the price of a major commodity; Cause inflation/depression for a regional area
   
9. Siphon off all profits from a minor corporation ($100,000); Own a major nationwide corporation; Exert major influence of local stock prices
   
10. Create a local stock market crash; Influence nationwide economic trends; make someone an instant millionaire ($1,000,000)
    

Health

Hospitals, blood banks, doctors, pharmacies, morgues.

1. Access a person's health records, fake vaccination records and the like, use public functions of health centres at your leisure, get a blood trait
   
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 ($500), have minor medical research performed on a subject, institute large scale quarantines, shut down business on health code violations
   
5. Have special research performed, have people institutionalised or released
   
6. Cause a major shortage of blood in an area, prevent ambulances from responding
   
7. Contaminate the whole blood supply of a minor hospital, locate supplies of minor infectious disease (flu)
   
8. Cause a major shortage of one type of medicine, perform major/illegal experimentation on a large number of patients, shut down a small hospital permanently
   
9. Contaminate the blood supply for an entire city, shut down a major hospital permanently, locate samples of major infectious disease (anthrax)
   
10. Shut down all medical care in a city for a day, direct genetic engineering projects
    

High Society

Culture and subculture, fame, fashion, trendsetting.

1. Learn what is trendy, obtain hard to get show tickets, learn about concerts/shows/plays before they're made public
   
2. Track most celebrities/luminaries, be a local voice in the entertainment field, borrow cash from rich friends ($2000)
   
3. Crush promising careers, hobnob well above your station
   
4. Minor celebrity status
   
5. Get a brief appearance on TV, ruin a new club/gallery/festival/etc
   
6. Own a small and influential gallery/theatre, give someone his or her 15 minutes of fame (create one level of fame for the session)
   
7. Bring a major travelling concert/play to the city, destroy the career of a minor celebrity (destroy a level of fame), appoint anyone as a member of the city's elite social circle
   
8. Make someone a minor celebrity (create one level of fame), become a major celebrity (grant yourself 2 levels of fame), own a large gallery/theatre in the city
   
9. Make someone a major celebrity (create two levels of fame), influence nationwide fashion trends
   
10. Destroy a major celebrity's career (destroy 2 levels of fame)
    

Industry

The business of making things; manufactures, factories, unions, trades.

1. Learn about industrial projects/movements
   
2. Have minor projects performed, dip into union funds or embezzle cash ($500), arrange small accidents or sabotage
   
3. Organise minor strikes, appropriate machinery for a short time
   
4. Close down or revitalise a small plant
   
5. Manipulate large local industry
   
6. Attract a major heavy industry to the area, illegally dump large amounts of toxic waste
   
7. Siphon off company profits ($5,000), eliminate/start a union in any company
   
8. Arrange a major ecological disaster, fatally sabotage a major construction project
   
9. Own a heavy industry/construction firm in the area, cause a major strike
   
10. Fatally sabotage an entire product of heavy industry/machinery, influence nationwide labour movements
    

Legal

Judges, lawyers, law firms, courtrooms.

1. Get free representation for minor cases
   
2. Avoid bail for some charges, have minor charges dropped
   
3. Manipulate legal procedures (wills/contracts/court dates), access public/court funds ($500), get representation in most major cases
   
4. Issue subpoenas, tie up court cases, have most charges dropped, cancel/arrange parole
   
5. Close down all but the most serious investigations, have deportation proceedings held against someone
   
6. Bring any investigation short of a grand jury to a halt, force a guilty verdict on a misdemeanour trial
   
7. Appoint a state judge, have a lawyer disbarred
   
8. Successfully sue anyone for major damages (destroy 1 level of resources), force guilty verdicts in felony trials
   
9. Control one of the members of the Supreme Court, appoint/fire the city's Attorney General
   
10. Force a guilty verdict on a major/sensational felony trial, rewrite local state laws as you want
    

Media

Local sources of news and advertising; newspapers, television, radio, magazines, internet.

1. Learn about breaking stories early, submit small articles
   
2. Suppress (but not stop) small articles/reports, get hold of investigative reporting information
   
3. Initiate news investigations/reports, get project funding and waste it ($500)
   
4. Ground stories/projects
   
5. Broadcast fake stories (local only), kill small articles/reports completely
   
6. Submit headline news successfully, cause a minor media outlet to begin an investigation
   
7. Destroy a minor newspaper/tv station, write small nationwide stories successfully, manufacture a major scandal (destroy one level of fame)
   
8. Cause a major media outlet to begin an investigation, kill nationwide stories before they hit the ground
   
9. Broadcast fake regional stories, destroy a major newspaper/tv station
   
10. Create a fake major national news story, create a news blackout over a whole city
    

Occult

Secret and fringe groups (cults), libraries, experts and shops specialising in the paranormal.

1. Contact and make use of common occult groups/practices, know some of the more visible occult figures
   
2. Know some of the more obscure occult figures, access resources for most rituals/rites
   
3. Access vital/rare components, milk impressionable for cash ($500), access occult tomes and writings, research a basic ritual from your sect
   
4. Gain access to a medium sized cult following, can confirm the existence of other supernaturals, research an intermediate ritual from your sect
   
5. Know general vicinity of certain supernaturals and possibly contact them, research an advanced ritual from your sect, access minor magic items
   
6. Create your own basic ritual, found a local cult (grant one level of allies), learn truthful lore concerning lupines/changelings
   
7. Create our own intermediate ritual, access major magical items, learn truthful lore concerning wraiths/spirits
   
8. Create your own advanced ritual, found a regional cult (grant two levels of allies), locate and bring a specific hedge mage/medium to you
   
9. Access legendary magical items, locate and bring a specific lupine/changeling to you
   
10. Locate an entire copy of book of nod or true lair of a methuselah
    

Police

Law enforcement personnel, gaols, prisons, and police stations.

1. Learn police procedures, hear police information/rumours, avoid traffic tickets
   
2. Have license plates checked, avoid minor violations, get "inside information"
   
3. Get copies of investigation reports, have police hassle/detain/harass someone, find bureau secrets
   
4. Access confiscated weapons/contraband, have some serious charges dropped, start an investigation, get money from evidence room or as appropriation ($500)
   
5. Institute major investigations, arrange set-ups, instigate bureau investigations, have officers fired
   
6. Control one aspect of a large city precinct (homicide/dispatch), appropriate contraband or drugs from the evidence room
   
7. Call SWAT raids, have free access to police facilities, have the crime lab lose evidence
   
8. Completely control the police department of a suburb/small town, have people extradited across state lines
   
9. Have police chiefs fired
   
10. Complete control of a large city's police network
    

Political

Elected officials, politicians, mayors, city council, state offices, legislation.

1. Minor lobbying, identify real platforms of politicians/parties, be in the known
   
2. Meet small-time politicians, garner inside information on processes/laws/etc, use slush fund/fund raiser ($500)
   
3. Sway or alter political projects (local parks/construction/etc)
   
4. Enact minor legislation, dash careers of minor politicians
   
5. Get your candidate a minor office, enact encompassing legislation
   
6. Enact major legislation on the local level, get your candidate into a major office
   
7. Destroy a career of a major politician
   
8. Get your candidate into a major federal office, enact minor nationwide legislation
   
9. Embezzle taxpayer money ($10,000), engineer a major political scandal
   
10. Give major support to a national political candidate, propose major national legislation
    

Street

Homeless people, street gangs, un-organised crime.

1. Open an ear for the word on the street, identify most gangs and their turf/habits
   
2. Live mostly without fear of the underside of society, keep a contact in most aspects of street life, access small time contraband
   
3. Get insight into other areas of influence, arrange some services off street people/gangs, get pistols/uncommon melee weapons
   
4. Mobilise groups of homeless, pan-handle ($500), get hold of a rifle/smg/shotgun, have a word in almost all aspects of gang operations
   
5. Control a single medium sized gang, arrange protests by street people
   
6. Completely dominate all aspects of a housing/slum project, mark a specific person for harassment in down-town
   
7. Locate exotic weaponry (bombs/sniper rifle), start a small riot
   
8. Completely dominate all aspects of a down-town neighbourhood, control a large gang
   
9. Locate unique or customised weaponry, mark a specific person who enters down-town for death
   
10. Completely dominate all aspects of a down-town of a major city, start a major city wide riot
    

Transport

By land, lake, or air; cabs, buses, hire-cars, free-ways, tolls, trains, shipping, airports.

1. Know what goes where/when/why, travel locally quickly and freely
   
2. Track an unwary target if he uses public transport, arrange safe passage (or concealed) from mundane threats
   
3. Seriously hamper an individual's ability to travel, avoid most supernatural dangers when travelling
   
4. Shut down one form of transportation temporarily, route money your way ($1000)
   
5. Reroute major modes of travel, smuggle with impunity
   
6. Bar a person from entering or leaving the city by public transport, attract a major transportation outlet to your city
   
7. Halt all public transport and cargo shipping to a small town, siphon off profits from transport firm ($5000)
   
8. Bar a specific type of cargo from entering/leaving the city, isolate a small town from any form of transportation
   
9. Cause a major transportation disaster, destroy a major transportation outlet, completely dominate one aspect of regional transportation (trucking/shipping/air)
   
10. Prevent anyone from leaving/entering a city by all forms of transportation, bar all cargo from entering/leaving a major city
    

Underworld

Organised crime; prostitution, arms, gambling, fraud, extortion, auto theft.

1. Locate minor contraband
   
2. Obtain pistols/serious drugs/stolen cars, hire muscle to rough someone up, fence stolen loot, prove that crime pays ($2000)
   
3. Obtain rifle/shotgun/smg, arrange a minor hit, meet someone in the family
   
4. Make white collar crime connections
   
5. Arrange gangland assassinations, hire demolition man/firebug, supply local drug needs
   
6. Locate exotic weaponry (bombs/sniper rifle), contract a professional hit
   
7. Launder money ($5000), supply the drug needs of a large city
   
8. Control the head of a small crime family, locate unique or customised weaponry
   
9. Put a price on anyone's head, start a mob war
   
10. Control the head of a large crime family, stage a public assassination/terrorist act/shooting spree (and get away with it)
    

University

Higher education, schools, universities, research, professors, lecturers, students.

1. Know layout/policy of local schools, access low level university resources, get up-to high school records
   
2. Know a contact or two with useful knowledge/abilities, have minor access to facilities, fake high school records, obtain college records
   
3. Call in faculty favours, cancel a class, fix grades, discredit a student
   
4. Organise student protests/rallies, discredit faculty members
   
5. Falsify an undergraduate degree
   
6. Falsify a graduate degree, create a college class of your choice, discredit the head of a college department
   
7. Falsify a Ph.D, know a contact or two with high levels of ability or esoteric knowledge, discredit the dean of a college
   
8. Appoint the dean of a college, funnel university fund your way ($1000)
   
9. Direct an entire university department to research a specific problem, have a research assistant attached to your service indefinitely (grant one level of allies)
   
10. Destroy/discredit an entire college