Influence Guidelines
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Bureaucracy
- Trace Utility bills
- Fake a birth certificate/drivers license, disconnect a small residence, close a small road/park, get public aid ($500)
- Fake a death certificate/passport/greencard, close a school for a day, shut down a small business on a minor violation
- Initiate a phone tap, fake land deeds, initiate department wide investigation
- 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
Church
- Identify most secular members, pass as a member of the clergy, peruse general chruch records (baptism/marriage/buriel/etc)
- Identify higher church members, track regular church members, suspend lay members
- Open/close a single church, find average church hunter, dip into collection plate ($500), access private information and archives of a church
- Discredit/suspend high level church members, manipulate regional branches of a church
- Organise major protests, access ancient church lore/knowledge
Finance
- Learn about major transaction/financial events, raise capital ($2,000), learn general economic trends, learn real motivations of transaction
- Trace an unsecured small account, raise capital to purchase a small business, raise capital ($4,000)
- Purchase a large business, raise capital ($8,000)
- Manipulate local banking (delay deposits, alter credit rating), ruin a small business, raise capital ($16,000)
- Control an apsect of city wide banking (shut off atms', arrange bank holiday), ruin a large business, purchase a major company, raise capital ($32,000)
Health
- Access a persons health records, fake vaccination records and the like, use public functions of health centres at your leisure, get a blood trait
- Access some medical research records, have minor lab work done, get a copy of a coroners report, instigate minor quaranties
- Corrupt results of tests or inspections, alter medical records
- Acquire a body, completely rewrite medical records, abuse grants ($500), have minor medical research performed on a subject, institure large scale quarantines, shut down business on health code violations
- Have special research performed, have people institutionalised or released
High Society
- Learn what is trendy, obtain hard to get show tickets, learn about concerts/shows/plays before they're made public
- Track most celebrities/luminries, be a local voice in the entertainement field, borrow cash from rich friends ($2000)
- Cursh promising careers, hobnob well above your station
- Minor celebrity status
- Get a brief appearance on TV, ruin a new club/gallery/festival/etc
Industry
- Learn about industrial projects/movements
- Have minor projects performed, dip into union funds or embezzle cash ($500), arrange small accidents or sabotage
- Organise minor strikes, appropriate machinery for a short time
- Close down or revitalise a small plant
- Manipulate large local industry
Legal
- Get free representation for minor cases
- Avoid bail for some charges, have minor charges dropped
- Manipulate legal procedures (wills/contracts/court dates), access public/court funds ($500), get representation in most major cases
- Issue subpoenas, tie up court cases, have most charges dropped, cancel/arrange parol
- Close down all but the most serious investigations, have deportation proceedings held against someone
Media
- Learn about breaking stories early, submit small articles
- Supress (but not stop) small articles/reports, get hold of investigative reporting information
- Initiate news investigations/reports, get project funding and waste it ($500)
- Ground stories/projects
- Broadcast fake stories (local only), kill small articles/reports completely
Occult
- Contact and make use of common occult groups/practices, know some of the more visible occult figures
- Know some of the more obscure occult figures, access resources for most rituals/rites
- Access vital/rare components, milk impressionable for cash ($500), access occult tomes and writings, research a basic ritual from your sect
- Gain access to a medium sized cult following, can confirm the existance of other supernaturals, research a intermediate ritual from your sect
- Know general vincinity of certain supernaturals and possibly contact them, research an advanced ritual from your sect, access minor magic items
Police
- Learn police procedures, hear police information/rumours, avoid traffic tickets
- Have license plates checked, avoid minor violations, get "inside information"
- Get copies of investigation reports, have police hassle/detain/harass someone, find bureau secrets
- Access confiscated weapons/contraband, have some serious charges dropped, start an investigation, get money from evidence room or as appropriation ($500)
- Institute major investigations, arrange set-ups, instigate bureau investigations, have officers fired
Political
- Minor lobbying, identify real platforms of politicians/parties, be in the known
- Meet small-time politicians, garner inside information on processes/laws/etc, use slush fund/fund raiser ($500)
- Sway or alter political projects (local parks/contruction/etc)
- Enact minor legislation, dash careers of minor politicians
- Get your candidate a minor office, enact encompassing legislation
Street
- Open an ear for the word on the street, identify most gangs and their turf/habits
- Live mostly without fear of the underside of society, keep a contact in most aspects of street life, access small time contraband
- Get insight into other area's of influence, arrange some services off street people/gangs, get pistols/uncommon melee weapons
- Mobalise groups of homeless, panhandle ($500), get hold of a rifle/smg/shotgun, have a word in almost all aspects of gang operations,
- Control a single medium sized gang, arrange protests by street people
Transport
- Know what goes where/when/why, travel locally quickly and freely
- Track an unwary target if he uses public transport, arrange safe passage (or concealed) from mundane threats
- Seriously hamper an individuals ability to travel, avoid most supernatural dangers when travelling
- Shut down one form of transportation temporarily, route money your way ($1000)
- Reroute major modes of travel, smuggle with impunity
Underworld
- Locate minor contraband
- Obtain pistols/serious drugs/stolen cars, hire muscle to rough someone up, fence stolen loot, prove that crime pays ($2000)
- Obtain rifle/shotgun/smg, arrange a minor hit, meet someone in the family
- Make white collar crime connections
- Arrange gangland assassinations, hire demolition man/firebug, supply local drug needs
University
- Know layout/policy of local schools, access low level university resources, get upto high school records
- Know a contact or two with useful knowledge/abilities, have minor access to facilities, fake high school records, obtain college records
- Call in faculty favours, cancel a class, fix grades, discredit a student
- Organise student protests/rallies, discredit faculty members
- Falsify an undergraduate degreee