Well if you in a normal 3rd edition M.E.T (or l.a.r.p) it works like this (or chick out p. 96 M.E.T Laws of The Night)
Oh-ya before I forget. The INFLUENCE of a one city SHOULD not ever lap
in a over city. THEREFORE, if have then one game in a city, all of the
storyteller should get to gather and talk about the city levels of INFLUENCE.
Mortal society builds on institutions. As humans raise their cities, they from gatherings of expertise that are manipulated by the Cainites hiding in their midst if you have Influence, you can sawy the direction of some areas of mortal society, pushing cities to grow as you direct. Your INFLUENCE can be used to stike indirectly at your foes while protecting your own assets, or to gain information and special resources.
INFLUENCE comes in many different areas. You must allocate Traits separately to each INFLUENCE: thus, if you have LEGAL x4, you could still have a POLICE x3 independently but would have to spend the traits for each.
You cannot manage more INFLUENCE than the sum of your permanent Physical, Social, aand Mental traits combined, this limit counts against al l of your total INFLUENCE-your combined levels cannot exceed this total. After all, there are only so many things you can do in a night.
When you exercise INFLUENCE, you expend temporary INFLUENCE traits. The tables for various I INFLUENCE areas detail what you can do with specific number of traits. Performing an action requires a number of traits equal to the level of the action; you must use three traits to perform an action listed at the third level of an INFLUENCE chart, for instance. Thus, with high levels of INFLUENCE, you can perform many small actions, or smaller significant ones.
Certain levels of INFLUENCE gift you with items, money or aids. Unlike the RESOURCES background, money and equipment garnered with INFLUENCE does not come automatically each month. If you want a steady income from INFLUENCE, you must direct your INFLUENCE in that direction continually, and this income dose not come with any associated trappings of weath (you'd have to buy a noues and a car separately, for instance.) Aides garnered with INFLUENCE generally help only for one specific task, and they usually only have equivalent of one level of ability in their area of skill-for more competent and readily available help, take ALLIES.
Most cities have only set amount of INFLUENCE in various areas. For instance, Atlanta has a grat deal of TRANSPORTATION INFLUENCE, because it is a hub of travel, while Hollywood would have a lot of HIGH SOCIETY and MEDIA INFLUENCE. A Rust -Belt where manufacturing and heavy industry has all but disappeared would have very little to no Industry INFLUENCE.
Storytellers should map out the total amount of each type of INFLUENCE to be had in the city. Once all of the INFLUENCE of a given type is used up, the only way to get more is to use INFLUENCE to grow that area of society (making new projects or sponsoring invest), to destroy someone INFLUENCE and thus free up those rescuers, or to acquire an adversary's INFLUENCE in an area. Also, each city may different reflections of the INFLUENCE listed here. A city with a thriving independent film community is going to have a different picture of MEDIA or HIGHT SOCIETY than a city where the arts are being literally starved out due to budget cuts.
Each area of INFLUENCE has its own description. Elder Vampires may possess truly farreaching INFLUENCE, giving them the power to exert control beyond the levels included her.
(WOW that almost toke for ever)….
Just to let you know, we're going to have INFLUENCE ON-LINE. That’s right. The reason we're going this is so the people who can't make it OH, can do there moves over the net. So, as the web-pages going up, we should have the links. Therefore, keep your eyes open…
AND WITH THAT IN MIND WHAT CAN I DO WITH IT ALL?
These influence charts reflect the control
your character has over the daily affairs of the innumerable hordes of
kine. It may take the form of contacts, allies or direct control of a
mortal agency. The following is an example of the use of these charts:
MacTavish Innes, former Prince of New York decides that he wants initiate
a phone tap. To do so, MacTavish Innes needs a Bureaucracy rating of 4
or better. Looking at his sheet, MacTavish has five and can easily get
this accomplished. If MacTavish had a rating of 3 or lower, he would need
to borrow the needed influence to get the phone tap. Influence can either
be bought through experience points and/or roleplaying. Influence can
also be borrowed from other characters, which is great way to accomplish
things that normally wouldn't get done by one Kindred alone.
Areas of Influence:
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Trace Utility bills |
| 2 |
Fake a birth certificate or a drivers
license |
| 3 | Fake a death certificate,
passport or green card Close a public school for a single day Turn a single Utility on a block on or off Shut down a minor business on a violation |
| 4 | Initiate a phone tap Initiate a departmental-wide investigation |
| 5 | Start, stop or alter a city-wide
program or policy Obliterate records of a person on a city and country level |
| 6 | Arrange a fixed audit of a person or business |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Identify most secular members of a given
faith in the local area Pass as a member of the clergy Peruse general church records ( baptism, marriage, burial, etc. ) |
| 2 |
Identify higher church members |
| 3 | Open or close a single church
Dip into the collection ( $250 ) Find the average church-associated hunter Access to private information and archives of church |
| 4 | Discredit or suspend higher-level
members Manipulate regional branches |
| 5 | Organize major protests
Access ancient church lore |
| 6 | Borrow or access church relics or sacred items |
| 7 | Use the resources of a Diocese |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Learn about major transactions and financial
events Raise capital ( $1000 ) Learn about general economic trends Learn real motivations for many financial actions of others |
| 2 |
Trace an unsecured small account |
| 3 | Purchase a large business |
| 4 | Manipulate local banking
( delay deposits, credit alterations ) Ruin a small business |
| 5 | Control an aspect of city
wide banking ( shut off ATMs ) Ruin a large business Purchase a major company |
| 6 | Spark an economic trend |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Access a person's health records Use public functions of health centers at your leisure Fake vaccination records and the like Get a Blood Trait |
| 2 |
Access to some medical research records
|
| 3 | Instigate minor quarantines
Corrupt results of tests or inspections Alter medical records |
| 4 | Acquire a body Completely rewrite medical records Abuse grants for personal use ( $250 ) Institute large scale quarantines Shutdown businesses for "Health code violations" |
| 5 | Have special research projects
preformed Have people institutionalized or released |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Learn what is trendy Learn about concerts, shows or plays well before the public Obtain hard-to-get tickets for shows |
| 2 |
Track most celebrities and luminaries
|
| 3 | Crush promising careers
Hobnob well above your station |
| 4 | Minor celebrity status |
| 5 | Appear on a talk show that's not about to be cancelled |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Learn about industrial projects and movements |
| 2 |
Have minor projects performed |
| 3 | Organize minor strikes Appropriate machinery for a short time |
| 4 | Close down a small plant
Revitalize a small plant |
| 5 | Manipulate large local industry |
| 6 | Cut off production of a single resource in a small region |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Get free representation for small cases |
| 2 |
Avoid bail for some charges |
| 3 | Manipulate legal procedures
( small wills, minor contracts, court dates ) Access public or court funds ( $250 ) Get good representation |
| 4 | Issue subpoenas Tie up court cases Have most legal charges dropped Cancel or arrange parole |
| 5 | Close down all but the most
serious investigations Have deportation proceedings held against someone |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Learn about breaking stories early Submit small articles ( within reason ) |
| 2 |
Suppress ( but not stop ) small articles
or reports |
| 3 | Initiate news investigations
and reports Get project funding and waste it ( $250 ) Access media production resources; Ground stories/projects |
| 4 | Broadcast fake stories ( local only ) |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Contact and use common occult groups,
practices Know some of the more visible occult figures |
| 2 |
Know and contact some of the more obscure
occult figures |
| 3 | Know the general vicinity
of certain supernatural entities and possible contact them Can access vital or very rare material components Milk impressionable wannabes for bucks ( $250 ) Access occult tomes and writings Research basic ritual |
| 4 | Research intermediate ritual |
| 5 | Access minor magic items
Unearth an advanced ritual |
| 6 | Research a new or unheard of ritual or rite |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Learn police procedures Police information
and rumors Avoid traffic tickets |
| 2 |
Have license plates checked |
| 3 | Find bureau secrets Get copies of an investigation report Have police hassle, detain or harass someone |
| 4 | Access confiscated weapons
or contraband Start an investigation Have some serious charges dropped |
| 5 | Institute major investigations
Arrange setups Instigate bureau investigations Have officers fired |
| 6 | Paralyze departments for
a time Close down an investigation |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Minor lobbying Identify real platforms of politicians and parties Be in the know |
| 2 |
Meet small time politicians |
| 3 | Sway or alter political projects ( local parks, renovations ) |
| 4 | Enact minor legislation
Dash careers of minor politicians |
| 5 | Get your candidate in a
minor office Enact more encompassing legislature |
| 6 | Block the passage of major
bills Suspend major laws temporarily Use state bureaus or subcommittees |
| 7 | Unsurp countrywide politics
Subvert, to a moderate degree, statewide powers |
| 8 | Call out a local division
of the National Guard Declare a state of emergency in a region |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Has an ear open for the word on the
street Identify most gangs and know their turfs/habits |
| 2 |
Live mostly without fear on the underside
of society |
| 3 | Often gets insight on other
areas of influence Arrange some services from street people or gangs Get pistols or uncommon melee weapons |
| 4 | Mobilize groups of homeless
Panhandle $250 Can have a word in almost all aspects of gang operations Get hold of a shotgun, rifle or SMG |
| 5 | Control a medium-sized gang |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
A wizard at what goes where, when and
why Can travel locally quickly and freely |
| 2 |
Can track an unwary target if they
use public transportation |
| 3 | Seriously hamper an individuals
ability to travel Avoid most supernatural dangers when traveling |
| 4 | Temporarily shut down one
form of mass transit Route money your way ( $500 ) |
| 5 | Reroute major modes of travel
Smuggle with impunity |
| 6 | Extend control to nearby areas |
| 7 | Isolate small or remote regions for a short period |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Locate minor contraband ( knives, small time drugs, etc ) |
| 2 |
Obtain pistols, serious drugs, stolen
cars, etc |
| 3 | Obtain rifle, shotgun or
SMG Arrange a minor "boost" |
| 4 | White collar crime connections |
| 5 | Arrange gangland assassinations
Hire a hitman or firebug Supply local drug needs |
|
Cost
|
Desired Effect
|
|
1
|
Know layout and policy of local schools
Access to low level university resources Get records up to high school level |
| 2 |
Know a contact with useful knowledge
or skills |
| 3 | Faculty favors Cancel a class Fix grades |
| 4 | Organize student protests
and rallies Discredit faculty members Acquire money through a grant ( $1,000 ) |
| 5 | Falsify an undergraduate degree |
| 6 | Arrange major projects Alter curriculum institution-wide Free run of facilities |