Doc sees the situation begin to degrade in slow motion.
Eyes widen. Hands reach for weapons. Mouths tighten against teeth in an ugly grimace. Shouts begin to echo around the room in garbled tongues.
While his body tenses, his soul feels tired. A man of peace cursed to exist in perpetual violence. His eyes linger on a man near him, assault rifle coming to bear against the people he came here with, when he feels power well in his chest between his lungs.
"Stop" Doc says.
The man goes slack, assault rifle drooping towards the floor as his body follows. Doc feels the wave returning to the hole in his chest between his lungs. Then the lights go out.
Choose an Animate target within 45 feet, spend an Action, Exert your Mind, and roll Charisma + Influence6, contested by the target rolling Mind, Difficulty 6. If you succeed, they take a dice penalty equal to your Outcome for 3 rounds. Affected targets cannot Concentrate. Difficulty
If their total dice penalty from all sources exceeds their Mind, they are instead stunned for 3 rounds and cannot act.