Hail and well-met, fellow players! Jill here, with the latest addition to her cast -- Pheme, aka Natalia Adelaide Hammond. ^^; For the brief history, she's new to Montenegro and lives at #104 Spark St with Kitsune and Elaine of Corbenic, and she'll be going into her senior year doing Journalism. Her application is here if you wanna poke at it, but here's the important part...
Her powers: Many-eyed, many-eared, many-tongued: As a goddess Pheme had the ability to see, hear, and subsequently spread any piece of information she discovered with lightening speed. In this, the age of technology, Pheme still has that ability to an extent -- if people are talking or writing within 50 ft of her she can pick up on their conversation or see what they've written -- though it doesn't work against filtered items.
Open your heart to me: When around Pheme for fifteen minutes or more, people will tell her things they usually wouldn't reveal. This could be anything from how they used to wee the bed to something far worse. The usefulness of the information she gets is dependent on the persons' will - the lower the persons' will the more scandalous the story.
The pen is mightier: When Pheme has something to say, people listen. Be it good or bad, her words can affect a persons' reputation if she so desires it. When she puts in a good word for someone, or chooses to slander them, other people take it with more gravitas than usual. How deeply they let her words affect them is up to the person hearing/reading them and dependent on how willing they are to believe it.
So, give me whatever, mmmkay?
Fair warning -- Pheme will put out 'blind items' relating to things she's read or seen (ie, public interactions), and the only way to avoid being the subject of one is to be incredibly careful in your public conversations.