Life Force
This is the lifeblood of the dolls. It is what moves them, holds their
mind and soul into their new body. Without it they will die. Life Force can
be used to create new dolls, revive a fallen doll, and to refresh your manna.
System: to create a new doll the number of your permanent Life Force points
must be spent to give the new doll life. The points you spend becomes your
child’s Life Force pool. If it comes down to it you can spend your last
permanent point of life. This act will pass along some of what you once
knew on to your child. In game terms half of your Abilities, rounding down.
Life Force can also be used to revive a fallen doll. To do this your character
must embrace the other doll while channeling life into its body. This works
on a one-for-one base.
When your temporary Manna runs out any toys, relics, letters home and
the like will no longer function. When this happens Life Force can be used
to refresh your power. Game wise this means for every temporary Life Force
you spend will refresh your temporary Manna pool.
Once all of your temporary Life Force is gone you fall in to a kind of
comma until another doll finds you and takes you home or shares some of their
life force with you. The way to recover temporary Life Force without the
help of another doll is to return to the dollhouse and sleep in your bed.
One night for every point of life force you wish to recover.
Manna
Manna is the innate energy that dolls can channel into their toys. This
allows objects that might otherwise not be a weapon it to an object of destruction.
When a toy is charged with Manna it doubles the damage it deals out. All
Manna charged is Aggravated Pattern Damage. Manna can also be directed in
to mundane items. This is what lets you send letters home or place a call
on a toy phone. You can also use Manna to charge a fist or foot, one strike
per dot spent. Once all the temporary Manna is spent you can no longer use
your toys. There are three ways to recharge your pool; the first one is to
get a care package form home. The second one is to go home for a meal. Food
form the dollhouse can recharge your Manna pool. The third is to use Life
Force (covered in the section on life force).
Damage
Dolls are under most circumstances immortal unless she is killed. How
can this be done? Fire is one of them; being made from cloth or wood makes
dolls flammable. Steelests don’t have much to fear form fire, however, they
can be smelted down into slag. Fire will cause one point of aggravated damage
per turn until the fire is put out. Magick can also hurt them; life, matter
and prime are the sphears they know can hurt them. It might be possible to
use other sphears against them but the three aforementioned are the ones
they know about.
Physical Damage: cloth and wood dolls can be torn to pieces. In the event
of a total stuffing loss from physical damage the doll losses coherent thought
and slips into death. Dolls can feel pain; it lasts as long as damage is
being inflicted. Once that stops the pain ends until the next wound is inflicted.
If more damage is inflicted than the dolls perment stamina rating the doll
is knocked unconscious. If the damage is equal to his stamina the doll is
stunned.
Healing
It must be said; dolls can NOT heal. Instead they must be repaired. The
more thrashed a doll is the harder it is to fix them up.
The repair rolls are as fallowed: