A Personamancy off shoot, New Orleans style….

You would have been a damn good personamancer had you not had such a large fixation with masks. Masks are a core part or personamancy but to them it is still a tool. Too you a mask is your face, an extension of you. A mask is who you are and you are the mask. You are a Mask Wearer, born and bred in New Orleans. Masks are a common place in the city around Halloween and Mardi Gras you know this power and you have harnessed it, even if you have to kill a few pesky personamancers in the process. You live through the eyes of your mask and all they see is the face you want them too.

Generate a minor charge: Ritually prepare a mask with a particular formula spell. For each hour that you spend in ritual preparation you generate a minor charge towards that spell. No mask may be worn at this time.
The School does not generate significant or major charges.

Taboo: to ever be seen without some kind of mask on (sunglasses are a godsend to help prevent taboo). If one is forcefully removed from your face you must shield your exposed face until it is covered or all masks on your person lose their prepared spells. While not truly a taboo, is anyone sees you put on a mask then the spell does not go into effect, just lays dormant.

Blast: this school has no blast….yet

Symbolic tension: you pretend to be others to improve yourself

Random Domain imitation and borrowing others ability

Charging Tips with enough time and masks you can gain a wide variety of skill enhancements

Starting charges You have no starting charges

Minor Formulas

Skills of the masked man
2 minor charges
This is the core spell of the Mask Wearers. A Masks Wearer takes a well known mask such as a plague doctor mask, a bloody hockey mask, or even a black strip of cloth and through a ritual imbues the mask with a skill bonus related to the properties of the mask. While worn the mask confers a +10% skill bonus (+15% if wearing a matching costume) to one skill chosen at casting. The effects of the spell last for a number of hours equal to the 10’s place of the casting dice. The time begins once the mask is put on. The effects end if the mask is removed prematurely.
Example: Aspen, a Mask Wearer knows some people are after her so she buys and prepares a mask similar to the Lone Ranger’s. At the moment of casting she chooses the Lone Ranger’s skill with pistols. She succeeds with a 37. Later that day she is cornered by a thug and retreats behind a dumpster to put on the mask. Once on she had a +10% bonus to her pistol skill that lasts for 3 hours.

The Death Mask
6 minor charges
The troupe of Mask Wearers have resurrected an old tradition of making death masks. Their spin on the tradition is that they use the masks to pry into the mind of someone recently dead. The mask must be made on the face of a recently dead individual. The mask is cast out of plaster and then decorated to look like the deceased individual. Once the mask is put on the caster rolls. If the spell is successful the caster may ask the storyteller a number of questions equal to the tens place of the casting roll. The Gm then answers the questions as if the dead person was answering them truthfully. If the mask is removed or all of the questions used the mask cracks and is useless.

Mask of Stolen Skills
8 minor charges
This is an enhanced version of the Skills of the Masked Man spell. This spell creates a mask with a permanent skill bonus. The mask may be taken on and off without losing effect, but if someone sees you take it on or off the mask looses all power. Also a Mask Wearer may only have three such masks at one time. If a new one is created one of the three current one looses effect.

Faces in the Crowd
10 minor charges

*The Mask Wearer school does not have a blast but this is the closest they have at the moment. The current Mask Wearers do believe that if the school becomes strong enough this could become a blast. But at the moment it is not.*

This spell is one that many New Orleans Personamancers strongly fear. The spell is cast upon a plain white mask that covers the casters entire face. When the caster wears the mask and looks into the eyes of a target the spell is cast. The target of the spell must immediately take a helplessness check with rank equal to the number of mask that the victim can see in their immediate area. For every 2 additional minor charges spent the duration of the spell is increased by 1 hour. If there are more than 10 mask present, they over flow into a second check.
Example: Aspen The Mask Wearer cast this spell on Jake during a Halloween party. There are 25 masked people present so Jake has to take 2 rank 10 helplessness checks and a rank 5 helplessness check due to the masks coming alive and harassing him. (unnatural and self checks may be appropriate as well)

The Eyes of the Death Mask
15 minor charges
This is a new version of the Death Mask spell. The spell requires you to make a death mask of a living person who must remain unconscious or “dead” while the mask is being made. Once the mask is created the caster may put it on and look through the eyes of who the mask was made from. The effects last for 10 seconds and may be only used once per day. If the victim looks into a mirror or reflective surface while caster is wearing the mask the spell is broken, the mask cracks, and the caster takes a rank 10 self and helplessness check.

What you here : There are three dukes in New Orleans who created this school during Mardi Gras. At first they were a minor nescience but as of late they have been wreaking havoc in the underground. Rumor is two sleepers tried to take them out but they were caught and only one was allowed to live. She is apparently in an asylum mumbling about how the eyes are watching.