Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Four:Special Rules and Systems (section)

=== The Unmada Field: ===

An unmada field extends around an unmada, covering an area based on her Inspiration. A mad scientist's unmada field reflects the unmada's own beliefs, echoing her philosophy back at her and twisting reality and perception so the unmada's worldview and aesthetic sensibilities are repeatedly validated.

This unmada field offers a rich environment for manes, who can remain stable (not orphans) if ideologically compatible with the unmada's madness. Manes spawned by the genius' madness or drawn by compatible nonsense inhabit the unmada field. They have no fixed number, but geniuses usually estimate a total number of Size units of manes in an unmada field equal to genius' maximum Mania.

{|
|+
|'''Inspiration'''
|'''Area'''
|'''Nature of Local Manes
|-
|1
|Same building
|Small regular objects and plants
|-
|2
|City block
|Small animals, hand-held objects
|-
|3
|Several city blocks
|A few clever person-sized animals, many smaller creatures
|-
|4
|City neighborhood
|A few intelligent creatures, several animals, many smaller creatures
|-
|5
|City directional location
|Thriving ecosystem and small communities
|-
|6
|Half of city
|Thriving intelligent culture
|-
|7+
|Entire city
|A few Inspired manes
|}

The manes inhabiting an unmada field view their sustainer as a sort of liege. Maniacal animals treat him not quite as a master, but as a source of safety and authority. An unmada automatically receives Allies (Unmada Manes) with a dot rating equal to half his Inspiration. Manes can guard areas, report suspicious activity, pass along information, or offer super-scientific advice (if intelligent). They will not be used as a personal army or security force. A genius needs automata or beholden for lab work or muscle; unmada manes don't serve in that capacity. These manes, of course, also have a vested interest in keeping a mad scientist crazy.

An unmada field follows a genius, though it may take time to re-establish the field if the genius moves a lot. If a genius moves outside of his field, his effective Inspiration (for determining area of control and the richness of the maniacal life there) begins at zero and increases at a rate of one dot per week until it reaches its maximum.

An unmada field is noticeable to geniuses. (See [[Genius_The_Transgression/Chapter_Four:Special_Rules_and_Systems#Detecting_Wondrous_Things:|#Detecting Wondrous Things]], below) Even at low levels, ripples of insanity swirl through a genius' home. Evidence against his world view seems to disappear. Arguments falter, growing confused and unconvincing. As an unmada's power grows, small objects appear that satisfy the unmada's philosophical or aesthetic sense: one might find that the store next to an Etherite's house sells tiny but functional toy electro-guns or more cars with fins tend to drive by, while traditional Oracles find unsavory technology disappearing around them, replaced by simple, well-made machinery. A powerful unmada is basically sovereign inside his own mind, immune to contradictory evidence―which vanishes―and surrounded by eager, fawning servants, happy to feed the echo doctor's delusions back to him. Manes that match the genius' ideas appear constantly, reshaping the unmada field like fairy-tale brownies until it resembles the unmada's ideal environment.