What you can do with Influence
Note: these are guidelines
for levels 1-5 only of each resource area. When you gain more than 5 influence
in an area you will be informed individually as to what can be done with it.
(See also New
guidlines for influence and Resource Levels)
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Bureaucracy
1
2
- Fake a birth certificate / drivers licence
- Disconnect small residences utilities
- Close a small road or park
- Get public aid (£100)
3
- Fake a death certificate, passport or work permit
- Close a public school for a day
- Turn off a single utility for an area (one road)
- Shut down a minor business on a violation
4
- Initiate a phone tap
- Fake land deeds
- Initiate a department wide investigation
5
- Start, stop or alter city wide program or policy
- Shut down a big business on a violation
- Rezone areas
- Obliterate records of a person on a city or county level
Church
1
- Identify most secular members of a given faith
- Pass as a member of the clergy
- Peruse general church records
2
- Identify higher church members
- Track regular congregation members
- Suspend lay members
3
- Open or close a single church
- Dip into the collection (£100)
- Access to private information and archives
4
- Discredit or suspend higher level members
- Manipulate regional branches
5
- Organise major protests
- Access ancient church lore
Finance
1
- Learn about major transactions and financial events
- Raise capital (£500)
- Learn about general economic trends
- Learn real motivations for many financial actions
2
- Trace an unsecured small account
- Raise capital to purchase a small business
3
- Purchase a large store (or a few branches of a small store or service)
4
- Manipulate local banking (delay deposits, alter credit rating)
- Ruin a small business
5
- Control aspects of city wide banking (shut off ATM’s arrange bank holiday)
- Ruin a small business
- Purchase a major company
Health
1
- Access a persons health records
- Fake vaccination records and the like
- Use public functions of health centres
- Get a single trait of mortal blood – one per month
2
- Access some medical research records
- Have minor lab work done
- Get a copy of a coroners report
- Instigate minor quarantines
3
- Corrupt results of tests or inspections
- Alter medical records
4
- Acquire a body
- Completely rewrite medical records
- Abuse grants for personal use (£150)
- Have minor medical research performed
- Instigate large scale quarantines
- Shut down businesses for health code violations
5
- Have special research projects performed
- Have people institutionalised or released
High Society
1
- Learn what is trendy
- Obtain hard to get tickets for shows
- Learn about concerts, shows or plays before public
2
- Track most celebrities and luminaries
- Be a local voice in the entertainment field
- Borrow idle cash from rich friends (£500)
3
- crush promising careers
- Hobnob well above your station
4
5
- Get a brief appearance on a talk show
- Ruin a new club or gallery, posh gathering etc.
Industry
1
- Learn about industrial projects and movements
2
- Have minor projects performed
- Dip into union funds or embezzle petty cash (£250)
- Arrange small accidents or sabotage
3
- Organise minor strikes
- Appropriate machinery for a short time
4
- Close down a small plant
- Revitalise a small plant
5
- Manipulate large local industry
Legal
1
- Get free representation for minor cases
2
- Avoid bail for some charge
- Have minor charges dropped
3
- Manipulate legal procedures (will, court dates etc)
- Access public funds (£100)
- Get representation in most court cases
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
Media
1
- Learn about breaking stories early
- Submit small articles
2
- Suppress (but not stop) small articles
- Get hold of investigative reporting info
3
- Initiate news investigations and reports
- Get project funding and waste it (£100)
4
- Ground stories and projects
5
- Broadcast fake stories (local only)
- Kill small local articles or reports completely
Military.
1
- Know basic military procedure
- Borrow a military uniform
2
- Get inside information
- Access military funds (£200)
3
- Borrow a pistol for 24 hours
- Have military personnel rough someone up
- Limited access to military facilities
4
- Confer rank of captain on someone
- Temporarily shut down a street for ‘military
reasons’
5
- Get naval provost to hassle someone
- Instigate internal investigations
Occult
1
- Contact and make use of common occult groups
- Know some of the more visible occult figures
2
- Know and contact some of the more obscure occult figures
- Access resources in the form of minor paraphernalia and books
3
- Know the general vicinity of certain supernatural entities
- Access some vital or rare material components
- Milk impressionable wannabes for bucks (£100)
4
- Access occult tomes and writings
- Access rare paraphernalia and knowledge
- Make contact with occult luminaries
Police
1
- Learn police procedures
- Hear police information and rumours
- Avoid traffic tickets
2
- Have licence plates checked
- Avoid minor violations (first convictions)
- Get ‘inside’ information
3
- Get copies of an investigation report
- Have police hassle, detain or harass someone
- Find bureau secrets
4
- Access confiscated weapons or contraband
- Have some serious charges dropped
- Start an investigation
- Get money from evidence room / appropriation (£500)
5
- Institute major investigations
- Arrange setups
- Instigate bureau investigations
- Have officers fired
Political
1
- Minor lobbying
- Identify real platforms
- Be in the know
2
- Meet small time politicians
- Garner inside info on processes and laws
- Use a slush fund or fund raiser (£500)
3
- Sway or alter political projects (parks, renovations, small constructions)
4
- Enact minor legislation
- Dash careers of minor politicians
5
- Get your candidate in a minor office
- Enact encompassing legislature
Street
1
- Open an ear for the word on the street
- Identify most gangs, know their turf and markings
2
- Live mostly without fear on the underside of society
- Keep a contact or two in most aspects of street life
- Access small time contraband
3
- Get insight into other areas of influence
- Arrange some services from street people or gangs
4
- Mobilise groups of homeless
- Panhandle (£100)
- Get uncommon melee weapons
- Have a word in almost all aspects of gang operations
5
- Control a medium sized gang
- Arrange impressive protests by street people
- Get hold of a shotgun
Transport
1
- Know what goes where, when and why
- Travel quickly and freely
2
- Track an unwary target if he uses public transport
- Arrange passage safe from mundane threats (robbery, sunlight, etc)
3
- Seriously hamper an individuals ability to travel
- Avoid most supernatural dangers when travelling
4
- Shut down one form of transportation temporarily (1 or 2 days)
- Route money your way (£250)
5
- Smuggle with impunity
- Re-route major modes of travel
Underworld
1
- Locate minor contraband (knives, small time drugs, tickets)
2
- Obtain serious drugs and stolen cars
- Hire muscle to rough someone up
- Fence stolen loot
- Prove that crime pays (£500)
3
- Obtain a shotgun
- Arrange a minor hit
- Meet someone in the ‘family’
4
- Make white collar criminal connections
- Obtain a pistol
5
- Arrange gangland assassinations
- Hire a demolition man or firebug
- Supply local drug needs (suburb)
- Obtain rifle
University
1
- Know layout and policy of local schools/uni
- Have access to low level university resources
- Get records up to 6th form level
2
- Know a contact or 2 with useful knowledge
- Have minor access to facilities - evening use
of labs etc.
- Fake 'A' level results
- Obtain school records
3
- Know what is 'trendy'
- Fix grades
- Discredit a student
4
- Organise student protest and rally
- Discredit faculty members
5
- Falsify an undergraduate degree.
- Gain access to restricted collections / info on
local area
Author: Daryl White
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