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| Bureaucracy | Civil Clerks, Power/Water Utilities, Telecom, Customs, Road Workers | ||
| Finance | Bankers , Accountants, Stockbrokers, CEOs, Business Owners, Loan Sharks, Real Estate Agents | ||
| Health | Doctors, Nurses, Hospital Workers, Pharmacists, Coroners, Therapists, Funeral Directors, Radiologists, Red Cross Workers | ||
| High Society | Musicians, Artists, Old Money Families, Actors, Models, Sport’s Celebrities, Posh Bartenders, Gallery Owners, Museum Curators | ||
| Industry | Construction Workers, Factory Foremen, Engineers, Electricians, Masons, Dockhands, Sanitation Workers, | ||
| Legal | Lawyers, Crown Attorneys, Law Clerks, Judges, Bailiffs | ||
| Media | Journalists, Editors, Photographers, DJs, Broadcasters, Critics | ||
| Occult | Antiquarians, Witches, Cultists, Hunters, Satanists | ||
| Police | Officers, Detectives, Dispatch, K9, SWAT, Prison Guards, Navy | ||
| Political | City Hall Personnel, the Mayor, Otago Councilors, Diplomats | ||
| Religious | Priests, Bishops, Ministers, Nuns, Monks, Rabbi, Imams | ||
| Street | Gang Members, Buskers, Petty Criminals, Prostitutes, Deviants | ||
| Transportation | Bus/Taxi Drivers, Dispatch, Pilots, Captains, Sailors, Couriers, Post | ||
| Underworld | White Collar Criminals, Smugglers, Terrorists, Hitmen, Bookies, Drug Czars, Mafiosa, Yakuza, Fences, Black Market Racketeers |
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| University | Professors, OUSA Exec, Registrar, Campus Security, Operational Staff | ||
Below are the types of things you can accomplish in downtime notes through your influence actions. A “Police 4” influence can do any of the 1-4 actions, lower levels being easier of course. |
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Bureaucracy |
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| 1 | Trace Utility Bills, Ease the granting of /hold up permits. |
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| 2 | Fake a birth certificate/driver’s license, disconnect a single, small residence’s utilities, close a small park or road, get public aid ($250) | ||
| 3 | Fake a death certificate, passport or green card, close a public school for a single day, shut down a minor business on a violation. | ||
| 4 | Initiate a phone tap, fake land deeds, close a major road, shut off utilities over a single block. | ||
| 5 | Start/stop/alter city programs, rezone districts, shut down a big business on a violation, obliterate city records of a particular person. | ||
| Finance | |||
| 1 | Learn about major financial events/transactions, raise capital $1000 cash, learn the motivations for many financial actions of others, predict general economic trends. | ||
| 2 | Trace an unsecured, small account, Raise Capital to purchase a small business (single store). | ||
| 3 | Purchase a large business (a few branches, or a single large store). | ||
| 4 | Manipulate local banking (delay deposits, cancel credit cards), Ruin a small business, get a briefcase full of cash ($25,000). | ||
| 5 | Control an aspect of city wide banking (shut off ATMs, create a bank holiday, shift interest rates), ruin a large business, purchase a major company. | ||
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| Health | |||
| 1 | Access a person’s health records, fake vaccination records and the like, get a single nightly trait of mortal blood. | ||
| 2 | Access medical research records, have minor lab work done, get a copy of a coroner’s report, instigate minor quarantines. | ||
| 3 | Corrupt results of tests or inspections, alter medical records, monitor bloodbank visitations. | ||
| 4 | Acquire a cadaver, rewrite medical reports, shut down a business for health code violations, institute large scale quarantines, have minor medical research performed on a subject, abuse grants for personal use ($250). | ||
| 5 | Have special research projects performed, have people institutionalized/released, close a hospital. | ||
| High Society | |||
| 1 | Learn what is trendy and about upcoming shows before the public, obtain hard to get tickets for performances, be invited backstage. | ||
| 2 | Track most celebrities and luminaries. Be a local voice in the entertainment field. Borrow idle cash from rich friends ($1000). | ||
| 3 | Crush promising careers, open or close a gallery, hob-knob well above your station. | ||
| 4 | Gain minor celebrity status, arrange for special exhibitions, launch a festival, business, or new product. | ||
| 5 | Ruin a club, gallery, festival or other posh gathering, appear on a talk show, make contact with major celebrities. | ||
| Industry | |||
| 1 | Learn about industrial projects and movements. | ||
| 2 | Have minor projects performed, dip into petty cash or embezzle funds ($250), arrange small accidents or corporate sabotage. | ||
| 3 | Organize minor strikes, appropriate machinery, use the union to exert control on other factories. | ||
| 4 | Close down or revitalize a small plant, fire at will (despite the unions). | ||
| 5 | Manipulate large local industries, introduce new mass marketed products, stage a major protest or strike. | ||
| Legal | |||
| 1 | Get free representation for minor cases. | ||
| 2 | Avoid bail for some charges, have minor charges dropped. | ||
| 3 | Manipulate legal procedures (court dates, minor wills and contracts). Access court funds ($250). | ||
| 4 | Issue subpoenas, tie up court cases, have most legal charges dropped, arrange or cancel parole. | ||
| 5 | Close down all but the most serious of investigations, arrange deportation papers for someone. | ||
| Media | |||
| 1 | Learn about breaking stories early. Submit small articles. | ||
| 2 | Suppress small articles or reports. Get hold of investigative reporting information. | ||
| 3 | Initiate news investigations and reports, get project funding and waste it ($250). | ||
| 4 | Ground stories and projects, hire/fire reporters/journalists. | ||
| 5 | Broadcast fake stories, kill local articles/reports completey. | ||
| Occult | |||
| 1 | Contact common occult groups and know some of their practices. Recognize prominent occultists. | ||
| 2 | Know and contact some of the more obscure occult figures. Access most ingredients for rituals. | ||
| 3 | Know the vicinity of certain supernatural entities and possibly contact them. Access most rare material components, help research/design a basic ritual, locate occult tomes and milk impressionable wannabes for bucks ($250). | ||
| 4 | Help research/design an intermediate ritual, plot ley-lines, divine aspects of the future. | ||
| 5 | Access minor magic items, unearth an advanced level ritual, run a full scale cult. | ||
| Police | |||
| 1 | Learn police procedures, hear departmental information and rumors, avoid traffic tickets. | ||
| 2 | Have License plates checks, avoid minor violations, get “inside” information. | ||
| 3 | Get copies of an investigation report, have police hassle or detain someone, find bureau secrets. | ||
| 4 | Access confiscated weapons/contraband, impound vehicles, have some serious charges dropped, palm some money from the evidence locker ($1000). | ||
| 5 | Institute major investigations, arrange setups, have officers fired. | ||
| Political | |||
| 1 | Identify parties, politicians and platforms, be in the know, have some minor lobbying done. | ||
| 2 | Meet with the mayor, organize a slush fund ($1000). | ||
| 3 | Sway or alter political projects (parks, roadways, city construction). | ||
| 4 | Be a friend of the mayor, crush promising politicians, enact minor legislation. | ||
| 5 | Know all of what happens at City Hall, have access to South Island legislation. | ||
| Religious | |||
| 1 | Identify most members of the Faith, pass as a member of the clergy, peruse church records (birth, marriage, burial certificates). |
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| 2 | Identify church superiors, track most of the congregation, suspend lay members. | ||
| 3 | Open or close a single church, dip into the collection plate ($250), access private information and the church archives, call an average church associated hunter. | ||
| 4 | Discredit or suspend high level clergy, manipulate regional branches of a faith, appropriate tithes ($5000). | ||
| 5 | Access hidden church lore, unearth a holy relic, call in an Inquisitor, open/close a monastery or convent. | ||
| Street | |||
| 1 | Get the buzz on the street, harass somebody briefly, identify most gangs and turfs. | ||
| 2 | Lie without fear on the underside of society, know most regulars on the street, access minor contraband. | ||
| 3 | Exert major control over a single gang, target vandalism/graffiti, get pistols or other simple weapons, discover information about other areas of Influence. | ||
| 4 | Mobilize groups of homeless, get a shotgun or rifle, have a rep respected by all local gangs, pan-handle for big bucks ($250). | ||
| 5 | Arrange an impressive protest, stage a riot, control a major gang. | ||
| Transportation | |||
| 1 | Know what goes where, when and why. Travel locally quickly and freely. | ||
| 2 | Track an unwary target using public transportation. Arrange safe/concealed passage safe from mundane threats (sunlight, robbery, etc). | ||
| 3 | Seriously hamper a person’s ability to travel, import/export. Avoid most supernatural dangers when traveling (Lupines, etc). | ||
| 4 | Shut down one form of transportation temporarily (bus/train/taxi/harbour/planes), route money your way ($500). | ||
| 5 | Reroute major modes of travel, smuggle with impunity. | ||
| Underworld | |||
| 1 | Locate minor contraband (soft drugs, scalped tickets, etc). | ||
| 2 | Obtain pistols, serious drugs, stolen cars. Hire muscle to rough someone up, fence stolen loot. Prove that crime pays (score $1000). | ||
| 3 | Obtain a rifle, shotgun or SMG. Arrange a minor hit. Meet someone in “the Family.” | ||
| 4 | Arrange a major hit, hire a cleaner or master forger, obtain a sniper’s rifle or some grenades. | ||
| 5 | Arrange gangland assassinations, hire a demolitions’ expert, control the drug flow in a city. | ||
| University | |||
| 1 | Know the layout and policy of the University of Otago, access low-level university resources, book rooms at the OUSA, obtain a student’s records (up to the high school level). | ||
| 2 | Know a contact or two with useful knowledge/abilities. Have mInor access to facilities. Fake high school records, obtain college records. | ||
| 3 | Call in faculty favors. Cancel a class. Fix grades. Discredit a student. | ||
| 4 | Organize student rallies and protests. Discredit faculty or grant tenure/financial aid. | ||
| 5 | Falsify degrees, have access to anywhere on campus 24/7, open/close fields of inquiry. | ||
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