Carousing

From Masq
Category: Abilities
Subcategory: Secondary Talent
Prerequisites: None
Reference: Changeling Players Guide (1st edition/WW7100), page 35

Secondary reference: Vampire Players Guide (2nd edition/WW2206), pp.22-23.


This is the ability to have a good time at a party or other social occasion while making sure others around you also have a good time. It involves a mixture of eating, good cheer and drinking without making a fool out of yourself. This ability can also be used to determine how entertaining and popular a character is at a party of event. On a successful roll of Manipulation + Carousing, the character can make a lasting good impression on everyone around him; this can be helpful if the someone is trying to make friends, garner information or distract the attendees while his cohort rifles the coat room. The difficulty of the roll depends on the social event: three or less for a house party with a buffet, seven or more for a sit-down dinner.

For vampires, however, things are a little different. Carousing also includes the ability to appear to eat and drink, normally, without actually doing so.
• Novice: You can plead a small appetite or recent illness.
•• Practiced: Perhaps you’re watching your diet.
••• Competent: A charming dinner companion.
•••• Expert: You obviously enjoyed the food.
••••• Master: You even called for seconds.


x Untalented: Every party needs a pooper, that's why we invited you...
• Novice: Good Ol' Uncle Bill
•• Practiced: Jake the Frat Rat
••• Competent: James Bond
•••• Expert: The Three Musketeers
••••• Master: Bluto in Animal House


Possessed by: Actors, Barflies, College Students, Dilettantes, Libertines
Example Specialties: Sexual Innuendo, Bon Mots, Lewd Jokes, Drinking, Exaggeration, Anecdotes