Text Box: The Changeling Investigator, Octan Tannahil, loathed what he had just done.  But it had been necessary.  He had peered into the mind of a suspected felon, ripped down his defences, and laid him bare.  
 
Octan had been treated to full visions of the felon's lust for sadism, experienced the felon's love of cruelty, and piety of dark gods.  And Octan knew that all the while he ripped the man's mind open, he suffered agony akin to surgery without the benefit of anaesthesia.
 
But it had to be done.  Octan had to know the locations of the corpses if he were to be able to file charges against this monster of a man.
 
Finally, using the full weight of his empathic gifts, he cut away the last defence, much like a surgeon with a dull scalpel.  Octan could see the burial places, the shallow graves, of the mutilated bodies.
 
 "Please!" the felon begged, "No more, No more!"
 
 "Shut up!" Octan commanded.  "This is more mercy than you showed those women."
 
Octan severed the Empathic Subjugation, and felt that is might take him a week of bathing before he could even begin to feel clean again.

Empathic Subjugation

The act of empathic subjugation is always an evil action, and is often used to extract information from an unwilling subject.  It is, in fact, a form of torture, in which the empath seeds the target's mind with feelings of sickness and horror, and overwhelms the target's mind until he or she would agree to do anything just to make the feelings of sickness and madness stop.

To initiate empathic subjugation, the empath must first establish empathic control.  To actualize the empathic assault the target's Willpower must be completely obliterated in a process that resembles spirit combat.  The empath may attempt three empathic assaults each round, matching his Willpower against the target's Willpower on the universal matrix.  The progression of Willpower loss follows the rules on formal spirit combat.

During the subjugation process, the empath must concentrate on sending images of rot, decay, violence, suffering, pain, fire, and death.  The end result is that the victim begins to feel the death of all hope in his spirit -- a feeling that progresses until his will is broken.

Once the victim's Willpower is brought to zero, he will essentially be a very communicative robot.  For the next 3d4 rounds, the victim of the empathic rape will answer truthfully any question asked of him.  Moreover, the empath can set up one (and only one) post hypnotic suggestion; the most common command is, of course "Forget this took place", but commanding suicide is certainly not unheard of.  A save versus sleep/charm negates the post-hypnotic suggestion.

As stated earlier, the act of empathic subjugation is always evil.  Depending on the situation, performing this act may or may not immediately change the character's alignment.  Frequent, repeated use of this power will definitely move the character's alignment toward Evil.  Moreover, the victim of empathic subjugation must make a successful save versus system shock or risk a 20% chance of contracting insanity.