Comliness question

[Javed]

Question about adjustment powers and comliness.

 

When you take a comliness drain/aid effect, do you have to specify whether the power affects positive or negative comliness, or will it automatically affect both, just going in whichever direction is appropriate?

 

Eg, Fleshsculptor has a COM Drain. In phase 12 he goes after Starlet, and drains her 24 COM down to a 14. Next phase he goes after Repulsor, who has a -20 COM and rolls another 5. Does this bring Repulsor to a -10, or just have no effect because it was originally defined as affecting positive COM?

[Steve Long]

Drain and Aid have the same effect on COM whether the COM is positive or negative — a Drain makes the COM rating lower (which actually makes it better once you’re in the negatives, in terms of frightening people and such ), and an Aid makes it higher (which makes the person less ugly).

 

In your example, Repulsor ends up with a -30 COM after being affected by the Drain.