Alright, I tried to rework the Intimacies following the hack of Kerisgame:
5-dot
Nunnally (Familial? Love, Obsession)(Positive)
Suzaku (Friendship, Rivalry)(Positive)
Your mother's death (Trauma, Vengeance)(Negative)
Britannia (Hate, Contempt)(Negative)
Emperor Charles (Hate, Disgust, Fear)(Negative)
4-dot
Milly (Exasperated/Fond Friendship)(Positive)
Chess (Competitiveness)(Positive)
3-dot
Erembour (Massive Crush)(Positive)
Shirley (Suppressed Attraction)(Positive)
Sayoko (Respect, Part of the Family)(Positive)
2-dot
Rivalz (Friendship)(Positive)
Silk (Appreciation)(Positive)*
Kaguya (Useful Ally)(Positive)
1-dot
Nina (Fellow Council Member)(Positive)
C.C. (Wariness, Possible Pawn)(Positive)
Akito (Useful Pawn)(Positive)
Rakshata (Useful Pawn)(Positive)
Leila (Useful Pawn)(Positive)
*From UC
Intimacy System explanation:
- "Brief, fleeting urge or emotion"
- "Minor ongoing like, dislike or feeling"
- "Major ongoing desire, hatred or occupation"
- "True love, heroic motivation, lifelong nemesis"
- "The will to survive"
Intimacies defines a character's interests. To go against them is to deny yourself, forcing your priorities to shift. Actions which defy or violate an Intimacy rated 3+ force a degeneration roll with a dice pool of (Intimacy dots). If the roll is successful, the character must either act as the Intimacy in question demands (diverting his quest to aiding the suffering beggars in the street, punching the bigoted noble she was trying to impress, etc) or suppress it by paying a point of Willpower. Repeatedly suppressing an Intimacy may, at the ST's discretion, be grounds for lowering its rating.
1-dot Intimacies can be created by stunts or a good (or bad) social roll. By default, they only last a scene, but the player can hold onto them and develop them if further if he wishes. Non-magical social influence generally only deals in 1-dot Intimacy - things along the lines of "you are now sad, but you'll cheer up once you've left the bar unless your player says otherwise" or "you hate that guy in the corner, but you'll forget about him after a good night's sleep unless your player says otherwise or things escalate". Or alternatively "you were sad, now you're not because I told a good joke". Social influences can also try to force someone to act on one of their existing Intimacies, or reduce/increase other Intimacies' ratings.
Magic such as the Charms of the Exalted can install 2-dot Intimacies immediately, and at the higher end it can even create 3-dot Intimacies from nothing in minutes or hours. This, however, is the limit of what is possible to induce, even by magical means - one cannot so trivially make a person as determined to serve as they are to survive. Such warping - even of the minds of mortals - takes time and extended effort.
