Alternative Torment

[Jimborg]

I just had a thought: what if Torment was handled more like Abyssals have Ressonance. WAIT! Hear me out.


When you Limit Break instead of the standard "you and everyone you love goes crazy", a variety of things could happen.


-Nearby animals/plants/people/organic matter being twisted in the manner of Malfeas (Trees turn metallic, animals turn demonic, people go crazy in a universe not ruled by their proper king, etc.)


-You receive internal penalties when not acting to the dictates of your Urge


-Nearby members of the Celestial Bureaucracy get nauseous (similar to Blasphemy effects)from the rage of their prisoners


etc.


What do you think?

 

[Kyeudo]

I don't like it. I don't exactly like most Torment effects (kinda narrow and Cecelyne's is just too forgiving), but they are better than this idea. Torment is a punishment of the Infernal, not a punishment of Creation.

 

[Jimborg]

*shrugs* Okay, it was just something I was throwing out there.

 

[Virjigorm]

I think it's reasonable idea, but maybe it should be a charm. It would allow you to activate it when you limit break to mitigate some of the "punishment" effects of Torment by passing the buck onto the world around you. It would still be a serious drawback in that it is a very obvious twisting of the Tapestry and the physical world which draws a lot of attention from everyone around and from Heaven itself. Instead of the unrelenting torment of their masters, these Infernals receive lesser punishment coupled with the wrath of gods, Exalted, local people, and the natural world.


It could also be a way to create Hellscapes more quickly and easily, albeit at the cost of suffering from some amount of Torment. Basically the Infernal is manipulating the feelings of his Yozi master to focus that anger/power into "constructive" results.