Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Two: Character Creation (section)

====Unmada, Brilliant Madness:====

Mania sometimes manifests as a sort of crackling energy, but that's not really what it is. Mania is raw creativity, and geniuses have a bottomless well of it. They just need to open up their minds. Of course, opening up their minds can drive them insane. Channeling too much Mania risks turning a genius into an unmada, unable to distinguish between the real world and the hallucinations and promises created by her own Mania.

Certain actions, like engaging in Deep Inspiration or transferring excessive Mania to oneself, trigger an unmada check. To make an unmada check, the genius rolls Obligation.

Dramatic Failure: The genius becomes an unmada.

Failure: The genius becomes an unmada. She can spend a point of Willpower to resist the effect. If she spends Willpower, the genius instead gains a mild Derangement, or an existing mild Derangement becomes severe, for the duration of the scene. This Derangement is usually the sort that reinforces the genius' own belief in the correctness of his worldview: Suspicion, Narcissism, and Avoidance are common.

Success or Exceptional Success: The genius feels a brief surge of madness but suffers no ill effects.

Suggested Modifiers: Every additional unmada check in one day (-1), using Deep Inspiration to gain additional Mania (penalty equals Mania gained), unmada check related to genius' catalyst (+1), unmada check related to genius' Obligation (+2)

Unmada who trigger an unmada check risk becoming Illuminated. Roll Obligation.

Dramatic Failure: The genius becomes Illuminated.

Failure: The genius becomes Illuminated. She can spend a point of Willpower to resist the effect. If she spends Willpower, the genius instead automatically loses a dot of Obligation.
Success or Exceptional Success: The genius feels something alien slithering behind her eyes but suffers no ill effects.

Once a genius is Illuminated, she can continue to perform actions that grant unmada checks, though she need not roll. The only exception is Deep Inspiration: an Illuminated cannot attempt Deep Inspiration.

Only Inspired beings can become unmada or Illuminated. Beholden and unInspired manes cannot suffer these fates.