Trigger the Lizard Brain

{{Mage/Spell
|Name=Trigger the Lizard Brain
|Source = Mage The Awakening Sourcebook
|Pages  = p.191
|Death  =
|Fate   =
|Forces = 
|Life   = 4
|Matter =
|Mind   =
|Prime  =
|Space  =
|Spirit =
|Time   =
|AA = Pulling the Strings of Fear
|GG = The Masters Temptations
|FC = Unnamed
|Practice = Weaving
|Action = Instant
|Duration = Transitory
|Aspect = Covert
|Cost = None
}}
The mage can control the instinctual reactions of human beings as he does with lower life forms using the [[Control Median Life]].

* Practice: [[Spell Practice::Weaving]]
* [[Action]]: [[Action::Instant]] and contested; target get rolls [[Pool::Stamina]] + Gnosis reflexively
* [[Duration]]: [[Duration::Transitory]] (one turn)
* '''Aspect:''' [[Spell Aspect::Covert]]
* Cost: [[Cost::None]]

At this level, the mage must touch the target. With Life 5, he can cast this spell at [[Sensory Range]].


[[Adamantine Arrow]] Rote: Pulling the Strings of Fear
* Dice Pool: [[Pool::Manipulation]] + [[Pool::Intimidation Skill|Intimidation]] + [[Pool::Life]] vs [[Stamina]] + [[Gnosis]]
Fear is a powerful tool. Adamantine Arrow willworkers who learn the casting of this rote understand the utility of such a resource. Of course, other instinctual reactions, such as deference to a superior or even the urge to mate, can be brought on through the use of such magic. Free Council mages use their own rote ([[Pool::Wits]] + [[Pool::Intimidation Skill|Intimidation]] + Life) to trigger those sorts of reactions in other human beings.


Ancient Lands Pentalogy Rote: The Master's Temptations <ref>[[Grimoire of Grimoires]] p26</ref>
* Dice Pool: [[Pool::Manipulation]] + [[Pool::Survival Skill|Survival]] + [[Pool::Life]]
The temptations the Master of Tomes lays into the natural impulses of Soter are attributed to this Mysterium rote, capable of causing endorphin rushes, focused distraction and similar elements of brainwashing and physiological manipulation in its targets.


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