Droning Suggestion

Cost: 10m Target: Area

The sorcerer evokes a low droning buzz faintly audible to all in the spell's area. At the moment of casting, the noise rises to a crescendo, the sound of a thousand voices whispering in an unknown tongue. This is the spell's only Obvious quality: Unlike other spells, Droning Suggestion does not flare the sorcerer's anima if the sorcerer uses only her Personal Essence. Thereafter, a single speaking voice can drown out the quiet hum. Whether they hear the sound or not, everyone within 10 yards of the caster becomes susceptible to her suggestions. The spell lasts until the end of the scene.

Droning Suggestion turns the sorcerer's social attacks into unnatural mental influences, though they cost only one point of Willpower to resist. Furthermore, a mortal victim of the spell is magically prohibited from realizing the nature of this effect for as long as the spell endures. An Essence-user may deduce the spell's nature if it imposes on him a mechanical effect that a natural mental influence could not, such as forcing his player to spend more than two Willpower in a scene resisting the sorcerer's social attacks. Deaf characters, including characters who have stopped up their ears with wax, are not affected.