Modal (Celestial)
... in the Tom Lehrer sense (i.e., "Every now
and then I play a wrong note").
This highly obnoxious Discord causes the sufferer to
be perpetually out of tune with the Symphony.
Every time a Modal celestial wishes to use his, her or its base
resonance, it must first make a successful Perception and/or Will roll, minus
the level of the Discord. If this roll
is failed, the celestial will instead get access to a limited version of some
other Choir/Band resonance. This is
often dangerous, and always frustrating.
The new resonance is determined as follows: take the
CD of the failed roll and count down (or up) the hierarchy. The two hierarchies are reproduced for your
convenience:
Detects truth at the equivalent of CD 1.
Knows location of the target for the next five
minutes, but can't hurt him or her.
Suddenly accelerates at the greater of (2x current
speed) or 30 mph.
Knows the primary emotional state of the target, but
unfortunately the volume control is broken.
The sudden shock will give a -3 to all other actions that round.
Malakite
Sees the most dishonorable act done by the target in
the last day. Also gets the first
Malakite oath for five minutes.
Takes possession of the target for (Will) rounds
before succumbing to extreme sensory shock (3D6 Mind Hits)
Gets the Mercurian resonance at CD 1 for five
rounds.
Can resonate one person automatically (CD of 1):
that person gets a +2 to resist.
Same as the Cherub resonance, really.
Does (Modal Level) Body Hits to the target.
Projects the demon's current emotional state onto
the target (CD of 1)
Detects a single level/1 Need... but no Geas if
fulfilled.
Same as the Kyriotate resonance, except that the
Mind Hit damage is 4D6.
Can Charm, but not Drain Essence: the maximum CD for
the former is 1.
Note that Grigori and Skulkers are not on this list;
also, jump to the top (and/or the bottom, as appropriate) of the list as
necessary.
For example: a Malakite with Modal fails her
Perception roll, with a CD of 4. She
will count down four spots (Kyriotate, Mercurian, Seraph, Cherub): now, instead
of confirming someone's dishonor, she instead detects their location and is
prohibited from hurting them. An
Impudite that failed his Will roll with the same CD will count up (Shedite,
Lilim, Habbalite, Calabite): so, instead of Charming someone, he's just caused
them Body Hits.
As for unfavorable Interventions, well, the poor
unfortunate will suddenly develop access to the resonance of their opposite
numbers (Malakite get the Lilim resonance, and vice versa). This will always be dissonant!
As a general rule, Superiors seriously dislike
seeing their Servitors go Modal: most will immediately remove or replace it (or
just destroy the Servitor in question).
Thus, most celestials suffering from it are Outcasts and/or Renegades.