Ship-Claiming Stance

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Sail 4, Essence 3; Type: Simple (Speed 6 in long ticks)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Sail Excellency

The Essence of a ship knows its master. This Charm claims a ship. The target ship must not be owned by another Essence channeler. This Charm causes the Exalt to own the ship instantly. Other characters subtract one success as an external penalty from all actions while on board until the Exalt formally welcomes them to the ship and unless he later renounces them. This is enforced by the little god of the ship, so the Exalt must welcome and renounce others in the language of the Old Realm and in earshot of the ship itself.

Unhallowed Ghost Ship

Same Charm for Abyssal Exalted.
Adds Mirror keyword.
Prerequisite Charms: Any Sail Excellency

Abyssal captains brutalize their ships worse than they do their crew. This Charm grants ownership of any Sail-based vehicle that is not currently owned by another Essence user, infecting it with unholy Essence. As Unhallowed Ghost Ship activates, the ship's least god manifests on deck and screams in confused agony before the Charm permanently destroys her. Thereafter, the godless ship looks substantially more weathered and damaged than it really is. The ship imposes a -1 external penalty to all non-reflexive actions taken onboard by anyone who is not a creature of death. A ship cursed thus must always remain so. Without a god, it cannot have its ownership transferred. Wise enemies sink these vessels rather than invite catastrophe by attempting to capture them.