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

====Transferring Mania:====
Mania manifests as two forms: as energy and as idea. Intelligent creatures (geniuses, beholden, and intelligent manes) transfer Mania by communicating with one-another. This requires a common language and the ability to communicate, either verbally or through the written word. Two beings can transfer a number of points of Mania per turn this way equal to their combined Inspiration scores as a regular action. Range is however far clear communication can be maintained, even over a phone line. Mania cannot be pre-recorded, however, or placed in notes, without using a capacitor. (See Capacitors, Page 295.)

Artificial things (mundane technology and manes) manifest Mania as a sort of motive force. (Modern geniuses view this "forceful" Mania as much like electricity, though it emphatically is not.) They can transfer Mania through physical contact. If both subjects lack Inspiration scores, they transfer one point of Mania per turn in this way if both take an action to do so.

A genius can only gain a number of points of Mania per scene from external sources (including capacitors, beholden, and other geniuses, as well as Deep Inspiration, but not when using the Calculus Vampire Merit) equal to her maximum Mania per turn (based on Inspiration). Any more requires an unmada check with a penalty equal to the number of times previously the genius has rolled an unmada check that day.