[@Lothaire] Shouldn't the influence be a 4 to match the weak mind control? To leverage that across a global population, he'd need influential connections in the media and government if he wanted any hope of exerting mind control on a sizable audience. 

Also, Shiny stone requires some description if its influence is 5. At first I thought that might've been some sort of typo, but in any case more detail is helpful here.