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Corruption is the result of exposure to, or use of, the warping energies from outside mundane reality that power magic and Sorcery. They steadily degrade and denature a person, place or other object, until the target becomes totally unnatural, twisted, and malevolently alien.
 
Corruption is the result of exposure to, or use of, the warping energies from outside mundane reality that power magic and Sorcery. They steadily degrade and denature a person, place or other object, until the target becomes totally unnatural, twisted, and malevolently alien.
  
Each character comes with a Corruption clock - usually with four segments, although a gifted or lucky, or exceptionally powerful Sorcerer may have more. After each time that a spell is cast - or that certain special Corruption stunts are used, or as a result of certain curses and magical attacks - the character makes a roll of their Will skill against the total value of the Lore put into the Sorcery action, from both the character's own Lore and any other sources, such as potions, etc. If the Will roll is higher, there's no Corruption; if it's lower, the character fills one segment of their Corruption clock. (Essentially, the character either succeeds or fails in resisting the insidious appeal of Sorcerous Corruption.) Once all four segments are filled, the character has to rewrite one aspect into a Corrupted aspect, a twisted version of what came before, and then clears their Corruption clock. The process continues until all five aspects are Corrupted, finishing with the Trouble aspect and finally the High Concept. Once all a character's aspects are corrupted and they have used up their last empty Corruption segment, they cease to be a playable character and become an NPC monster.
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Each character comes with a Corruption clock - usually with four segments, although a gifted or lucky, or exceptionally powerful Sorcerer may have more. After each time that a spell is cast - or that certain special Corruption stunts are used, or as a result of certain curses and magical attacks - the character makes a roll of their Will skill against the total value of the Sorcery action (skill +/- roll +/- any other modifiers such as Advantages). If the Will roll is higher, there's no Corruption; if it's lower, the character fills one segment of their Corruption clock. (Essentially, the character either succeeds or fails in resisting the insidious appeal of Sorcerous Corruption.) Once all four segments are filled, the character has to rewrite one aspect into a Corrupted aspect, a twisted version of what came before, and then clears their Corruption clock. The process continues until all five aspects are Corrupted, finishing with the Trouble aspect and finally the High Concept. Once all a character's aspects are corrupted and they have used up their last empty Corruption segment, they cease to be a playable character and become an NPC monster.
  
 
If a character can make it through a session of play without taking a single instance of Corruption, they can clear one segment on their Corruption clock. There may be other ways of clearing Corruption, or even purifying Corrupted aspects, but these are not part of normal play - the more usual intervention by the Church in Eversink is to burn the offender.
 
If a character can make it through a session of play without taking a single instance of Corruption, they can clear one segment on their Corruption clock. There may be other ways of clearing Corruption, or even purifying Corrupted aspects, but these are not part of normal play - the more usual intervention by the Church in Eversink is to burn the offender.

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