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Path of Absolute Certainty

Custom Content Category: Discipline

XP Cost: 0XP

MET Mechanics:

Proposed name: Path of Absolute Certainty

D'Jaq Ghiberti, chief Necromancer of the cities of La Crosse and Winona began encountering demon's and other infernal

forces shortly after arriving in the domains over two years ago. Again and again they caused mischief and destruction. He

could beat them and banish them through physical damage and the use of Potence and as for the act of chaining them

away he left to the Tremere; until the Tremere 'expert' simply didn't do her job for over half a year. He grew frustrated and

began to devise a way to use Necromancy to bind demons away for longer. He theorized that by taking the chains, or

fetters of wraiths and moving them from the wraith to an infernal agent he could use them to bind such creatures away,

and took several trips into the Shadowlands. While there he studied holy ground, ground where a certified miracle took

place. Shortly after their arrival in the Diocese of La Crosse a fire was started in the Convent which the Sisters of Perpetual

Adoration were building. The charter of the order of nuns was about to be consumed, which would have meant their

dissolution as an order. Especially given how the Bishop of La Crosse disliked their order and had tried to remove their

charter multiple times before this. But their first Mother Superior rushed to the Chapel where the charter was kept and

began to pray that it be kept safe. Her prayers kept that chapel safe when every other building in the convent was burned

to the ground. On this holy ground in the Shadowlands stands an Angel. Those souls who have overcome their sins in the

Perdition that the Shadowlands are, are aided by said Angel so that they might finally ascend into Paridisio. Standing in the

sight of an Angel when you're a sinful thing like a vampire is a painful thing. But D'Jaq waited and watched and suffered.

Ascention into heaven is not a common occurrence, but after watching a few such Ascentions D'Jaq learned enough to

suit his purpose, and began to formulate a method by which he could use his knowledge and the power of his blood to

meet his intended goal.

The magic which he created is largely modeled upon, and infused with faith, but is not faith based. No necromancer

should have faith in heaven or hell. Necromancer's can literally see a soul ascend into heaven, though this is admitedly

rare. The more common thing which they can see is Eternal Damnation into Perdition. Uses of the Path of Absolute

Certainty are all but guaranteed to attract attention, but should not necessarily be seen as Masquerade breaches, as the

Divine is, by it's very nature obviously Divine, and God simply will not allow His actions to be forgotten. Memories of the

creatures/items summoned by Lion of Zion, Lamb of Zion, Owl of Zion, Washed Clean by Zion and Chains of Dante cannot

be repressed by Dominate, mind affecting thaumaturgy, the Mind Sphere of true magik or by any other power. Memories of

other people present can be blurred by Mask of 1K, or forgotten through Dominate, or mind affecting thaumaturgy, or the

mind sphere. The animal formed images created by this path of Necromancy are not actual animals and no power of

Animalism will work on them. ST's are encouraged to be absolutely vicious in punishing anyone foolish enough to try

Subsume the Spirit on the Lion, Lamb or Owl of Zion or anyone attempting to use Possession on the human shaped figure

of Washed Clean by Zion.

Basic: Lion of Zion: The necromancer learned to use their absolute certainty in the existence of the divine, and that divine's

desire to smite the infernal to do just that; Smite them. When physically attacking a demon or anyone with an infernal

investment the Necromancer may conjure a life sized glowing white lion with an appearance similar to that of a Patronus

which will attack the infernal on the Necromancers behalf. It will use, and if unsuccessful in a challenge lose, the

Necromancer's traits on their behalf. In addition the Lion of Zion may use the necromancer's Potence including the

Necromancers Potent trait, the Bomb and the Might retest and the increased damage from Advanced Potence (The Lion

will deal lethal damage even if the Necromancer does not have first basic Potence). The Lion can use the Necromancers

Prowess refresh but between Necromancer and Lion only one refresh is allowed per night. The Lion may not use the

Necromancer's Brawl rebids, nor may it use any carrier attacks such as Quell or Vicissitude. The lion cannot be damaged,

though it could be dismissed through counterthaum. It will disappear upon the death of the Necromancer who summoned

it.

In addition to the Necromancer's Potent trait it may bid the trait Searing which may never be lost and may be repeatedly

bid against infernal agents just as Intensity can be used in physical challenges with Potence. The Lion will appear

anywhere within six steps of the Necromancer. It may move up to six steps each round, but must stay within line of sight.

It may make one attack per turn and may attempt once and only once per turn to intercept an attack meant for the

Necromancer as long as it could feasible interpose itself between the necromancer and the attack. As directing it is a

thaumaturgical action the necromancer may make no other actions any turn that is spent directing the lion. This includes

dodging or soaking an attack, though reflexive actions like using Fortitude to test down damage, or spending a blood to

heal at the beginning of the round are allowed.

Extra actions granted by Celerity may not be used the same turn that this lion is conjured nor may they be used in the

same turn the lion is directed. The lion does not get any off hand actions and cannot benefit from Celerity (or Temporis).

This lion may only be commanded to make attacks against infernal beings or those who have made an infernal pact, but

possessing this power does not tell you if someone is infernal. It will never make any attack against individuals who do not

have an infernal pact, though if a non infernal person has been taken control of by an infernal item it will attack them. If the

Necromancer is foolish enough to risk directing the Lion of Zion to attack someone without proof that their target is

infernal or if they order it to attack based upon bad intelligence and they are wrong the Lion will instead attack the

Necromancer and automatically inflict one level of aggravated damage which may not be tested down through Fortitude.

The lion will disapear and the power may not be used again for 48 hours. If the user of this power is forced through

Dominate or similar powers to direct the Lion to attack a noninfernal the lion will ignore the command. This Lion of Zion

cannot be forgotten. Attempts to make a mortal forget this agent of the divine and it's actions will automatically fail, God

does not let his agents be forgotten. Attempts to make a target forget other people present proceed normally. Possessing

this power automatically means that the PC has gained the flaw Enemy (The Infernal) 1. This may not be bought off ever.

Example: Pinocchio Giovanni is walking his dog through the family plot when he spots 6 mortal teenagers and an imp

performing profane rites. He gets up close and summons the Lion. The mortals all scatter and run for it and the imp flies to

a nearby tree branch. (end round one) The imp decides to throw a fireball at the Lion. The fireball can't hurt the Lion so it

relents. On Pinocchio's action the lion leaps upward an swipes at the imp bidding Potent and, because it's moving, Searing

enough to strike the imp. The imp bids dexterous enough to not be hit. Player and st chop and tie. As the lion has access

to Pinocchio's ties the lion wins and deals two lethal damage to the imp. End round two. The Lion of Zion now has more

traits than the imp so it goes first. It again leaps into the air and swats at the imp bidding Potent and Searing enough to do

so. The imp bids dexterous enough to not get hit. Player and ST chop it out and Pinocchio's player flat out loses the chops.

The imp decides to attack the necromancer and throws a fireball at Pinochio. The Lion bids that it is searing enough to

twist in the air and take the hit for Pinocchio. Player and ST chop it out and player wins. The Lion takes the blow meant for

Pinocchio, though it of course suffers no ill effect. At two traits in this the third round one of the mortal teenager's come

back. The imp uses it's social soliloquy to say "Shoot him" and points at Pinocchio. The mortal draws a gun and attempts

to shoot Pinocchio. Pinocchio cannot attempt to dodge or to be tough enough to take the blow because he is actively

directing the Lion, and the lion has already made it's one attempt to intercept an attack meant for Pinocchio and so it can't

make an attempt again. And since the Lion is in front of Pinocchio and the mortal is shooting Pinocchio in the back the

Lion couldn't feasibly move to take the hit and wouldn't have been able to try anyway. Thus Pinocchio takes a lethal which

he tests down with Fortitude. At this point the imp chooses to fly away. Pinocchio knows if he has to deal with the

teenager without aid of the Lion as the teenage may not have made a pact with the Imp yet. He dismisses the Lion anduses his own Potence and Celerity to quickly beat the kid unconscious. He interrogates said kid and kills him after he finds

out the names of the other five kids and whether they'd made a pact with the devil yet. None have so he now has five

teenagers to track down and use Dominate on to erase his face from their memories. He will not be able to erase their

memory of a big glowing lion charging among them so he leaves their memories mostly in tact and they believe God sent

an Angel in the form of a lion to stop the rite they were doing, and that said Angel killed Teenage #6 because he did make a

deal with the devil they'd summoned.

Lamb of Zion: The necromancer has learned to use their absolute certainty in the existence of the divine, and the divine's

desire to smite the infernal to do just that; Smite them. When using any social power against an agent of the infernal or

anyone with infernal investment the Necromancer may bid the trait Angelic which may never be lost and may be

repeatedly bid against infernal agents in social challenges just as Intensity can in physical challenges with Potence. This

trait may only be bid against infernal beings or those who have made an infernal pact but possessing this power does not

tell you if someone is infernal. If the Necromancer is foolish enough to bid the Angelic trait against non-infernal without

proof or because of bad intelligence and they are wrong they suffer one level of aggravated damage which may not be

tested down through Fortitude and this power may not be used again for 48 hours. While using this power a life sized

glowing white lamb will appear next to the Necromancer. It is similar in appearance to a Patronus and memories of this

Lamb of Zion may simply not be suppressed. Any attempt to make a target forget this Lamb of Zion or it's actions will

automatically fail. God does not let his agents be forgotten. Attempts to make a target forget other people present proceed

normally. Possessing this power automatically means that the PC has gained the flaw Enemy (The Infernal) 2. This may

not be bought off ever.

Intermediate:

Owl of Zion: The necromancer has learned to use their absolute certainty in the existence of the divine, and the divine's

desire to smite the infernal to do just that; Smite them. When using any mental power against an agent of the infernal or

anyone with infernal investment the Necromancer may bid the mental trait Divinely Guided which may never be lost and

may be repeatedly bid against infernal agents in mental challenges just as Intensity can in physical challenges. It may not

be used in Firearms or Archery related challenges, regardless of if the if the target of the challenge is infernal or not. This

trait may only be bid against infernal beings or those who have made an infernal pact but possessing this power does not

automatically tell you if someone is infernal. If the Necromancer is foolish enough to use the the Divinely Guided trait

without proof or with bad intelligence and they are wrong they suffer one level of aggravated damage which may not be

tested down through Fortitude and this power may not be used again for 48 hours. When using this power a glowing white

owl, similar in appearance to a Patronus will appear seated upon the character's right shoulder. Any attempt to suppress

or erase memories of this Owl of Zion automatically fail. God does not allow his agents to be forgotten. Attempts to make

a target forget other people present proceed normally. Possessing this power automatically means that the PC has gained

the flaw Enemy (Infernal) 3. This may not be bought off ever.

Individuals with this power who also possess Aura Sight who look upon and successfully view the individuals aura's can

see infernal taint even if the individual has not used an infernal power in the last hour. If the possessor has Innocent's of

the Child's Heart and they have used any infernally granted power in the last hour, they are treated as if they didn't have

Innocent's of the Child's Heart. However any individual with a pact automatically knows that the possessor of this power

has it, and automatically knows when the possessor of this power has them in line of sight. This aspect of the power is

only usable if the Necromancer is in their own body though agents of the infernal and those with Infernal pacts know the

instant you have them in line of sight regardless of if your in your body or not. If the Necromancer is in Possession of

Subsume the Spirit and they use Aura Perception to try and learn if someone is infernal they must follow the regular rules

for detecting Infernal taint and do not gain the secondary benefits of Owl of Zion. A necromancer in a form power such as

bat form from shape of the beast is still in their own body and the secondary aspect of Owl of Zion works. The same is true

of a Necromancer in Blood form, Shadow body or Mist Form.

In addition, upon mastering this level of the Path of Absolute Certainty all PC's with Infernal pacts instantly are made

aware of your existence by their patron and will see your face, and the specifics of this path of Necromancy.

Washed Clean by Zion: At the end of any defensive challenge involving an infernal power where you have lost, spend three

temporary willpower. The power/ability is treated as if the resolution of challenge was in your favor. If you are out of

willpower and affected by mind control or a power that transforms you (IE your turned into a newt) you may, upon

regaining enough willpower spend three willpower to undo the mind control and or transformation. In addition you may

spend 3 willpower to undo mind control or a transformation of infernal origin which has been placed upon another person.

Doing this causes a glowing white human shaped form similar in appearance to a Patronus to appear and empty the

contents of a jar upon you. Memories of this indistinct being may not be forgotten, though attempts to erase or suppress

the memories of the faces of other people present at this time proceed normally.

Possessing this power automatically means that the PC has gained the flaw Enemy (Infernal) 4. This may not be bought

off ever.

Advanced:

Chains of Dante: When facing a infernal entity or anyone with an infernal pact the Necromancer may chose to permanently

destroy 1-3 magic items created by Necromantic rituals, and or fetter. Items created by other magics such as Entrap

Ephemera, garou fetishes do not work. Items created by true magic of Mages will work if the Sphere of Prime was used in

their creation. If not they will not work. For the next scene the infernal entity or individual with an infernal pact is down the

same number of traits when attacking anyone within 30 feet of the Necromancer. When attacking the Necromancer

himself, the infernal entity or individual with the infernal pact must bid the same number of traits extra on any aggressive

action towards the Necromancer.

When this power is used glowing white chains erupt from the earth and clasp themselves on the limbs of the infernalagent. Upon it's destruction they will drag it into the earth and a bright glowing Seal of Solomon will appear on the earth

which is clearly visible to anyone, including the blind, for one month afterwords; This Seal of Solomon will cause the

Infernal agent to be banished to hell for one millennium per magic item or fetter sacrificed.

Using this power when no infernal being is present is not a good idea. ST's have full license to make the players life

miserable and or kill the PC who does this.

Possessing this power automatically means that the PC has gained the flaw Enemy (Infernal) 5. This may not be bought

off ever.

Example: Pinocchio Giovanni and his Enforcer Juan Pisonob spot an imp causing havoc. Pinocchio sacrifices 1 fetter and

1 Bastico Diablico. The imp bids Dexterous throws a fireball at Juan who rushed it. The enforcer bids Dexterous. Both ST

and the Enforcer's player throw paper and compare ties. The imp normally has 10 traits, but due to Chain's of Dante it can

only declare 8. The enforcer declare's more.

Next round the imp decides that killing the necromancer who doesn't have combat training is a better match for it than

fighting a combat trained Enforcer. The imp throws the fireball at Pinocchio. Because Chain's of Dante is active it must bid

Dexterous x3 while Pinocchio bids a single Quick. Both throw rock. The imp lost last round and would normally bid 9, but

due to Chain's of Dante it only bids 7. Pinocchio bids more and the imp's really in trouble because it loses all three

Dexterous traits and only has 6 usable traits and can only currently bid 4.

Date of Archival: 29-Jan-2015

Giovanni

Path of Enchantment

Custom Content Category: Discipline

XP Cost: 0XP

MET Mechanics:

Tiamats Paths of Enchantment

Enchantment
Enchantment - the vocation of crafting (minor) magical talismans - is an art for the patient and those whose talents are not limited to the cerebral. Not only must the enchanter spend days or weeks tending the furnaces, etching the sigils, tying the catgut with the sacred knots, she must also construct the original item to be enchanted. Only a vampire with such intimate knowledge of an object can hope to imbue it with magic.

While the vampire is crafting the talisman, she may set any special restrictions or rules (such as “only works for women” or “activates when the user says “Alcatraz”) she wants upon it, so long as the rules do not increase the power of the talisman beyond her level of understanding. Such conditions add to the complexity of the enchantment and take longer to craft.
Enchantment's associated Ability is Crafts. And use Mental Traits.

An enchantment always begins with the construction of the object to be enchanted. This may be played out, relegated to a series of Crafts challenges or handled in downtime. The better constructed an object is, the more potent enchantment it can accept, so most enchanters put great time and effort into the initial crafting.

Once the object to be enchanted is completed, the actual enchantment is a ritual that takes a week per level of Enchantment. If the enchanter is kept away from his project for more than a few hours at a time, the enchantment fails. All enchantments cost one Willpower Trait per level of enchantment upon completion of the enchantment, whether successful or not. The first time a sorcerer successfully crafts an enchantment, the process has a difficulty one Trait higher than usual. Like Alchemy, Enchantment can be a very costly process calling for rare substances and expensive equipment. The Storyteller may require that an enchanter dedicate one or two Resources Traits to materials and laboratory upkeep, or that he put some effort into obtaining the requisite parts for his bizarre devices.

A personal item may have 1 effect from this discipline and must be crafted to a rating equal to the level of the power used. If the item is made for another they must submerge the item in their blood which it drinks and they must expend a willpower to attune the item to them within 24 hours of the item's creation. Once attuned the item is a permanent sympathetic link until destroyed and will work for no other.

A trap may have a maximum number of effects equal to the character’s dots in the generation background or half the crafter’s craft rating in trapmaking, whichever is greater. All uses and items made or altered via this path are at ST discretion.

All Costs are out of Clan, as it is only taught by Lantla/Tiamat, thus Coord approval, only.

•Vulcan’s Anvil
The enchanter can create a simple talisman that can give 1 bonus something ie: 1 retest, 1 health level, 1 named trait etc. These will refresh the next night if used or in the case of traits when lost. Costs 1 willpower and 1 week to make. (4 xp)

••Wayland’s Hammer
The enchanter can make a lesser talisman that can give 2 bonus something ie: 2 retest, 2 health level, 2 named trait etc. These will refresh the next night if used or in the case of traits when lost. Costs 2 willpower and 2 weeks to make. (4 xp)

•••Gibil’s Fire
The enchanter can create a moderate talisman that can give 3 bonus something ie: 3 retest, 3 health level, 3 named trait etc. These will refresh the next night if used or in the case of traits when lost. Costs 3 willpower and 3 weeks to make. (7 xp)

••••Gobannus’ Will
The enchanter can create a greater talisman that allows their user to surpass human abilities. Such talismans can imbue an item or trap with a Basic discipline effect equivalent to a discipline you possess and will be fueled in a similar fashion once activated by a willpower for a scene. Costs 4 willpower and 1 month to make. (7 xp)

•••••Lothar-wa-Khasis’ Blessing
At this level the enchanter can do formidable crafting. The enchanter can imbue an item or trap with a Intermediate discipline effect equivalent to a discipline you possess, will be fueled in a similar fashion once activated by a willpower for a scene. Costs 5 willpower and 1.5 months to make. (10 xp)

Date of Archival: 05-Apr-2023

Ventrue

Perseqour

Custom Content Category: Discipline

XP Cost: 0XP

MET Mechanics:

Perseqour

In order to use this power, it requires the user to have had a social interaction with the target for at least 10 minutes or the successful use of a social discipline on the individual being tracked.

Retests with Hunting . User gets +1 trait per level for purpose of tracking.

Wayfind

Basic

Static mental challenge vs the targets permanent willpower, know general direction of target.

Basic

Static mental challenge vs the target's permanent willpower, on success the user can stay on the trail of target as long as actively follow trail or until the next sunrise.

Locale

Intermediate

Static mental challenge vs the target's permanent willpower upon success the user will know the target's next location that the target went as long as the user is familiar with the targets surrounding area.

Track

Intermediate

Static mental challenge vs the target’s permanent willpower, the user knows the coordinates of target within 500 ft

Zone In

Advanced

Static mental challenge vs the target’s permanent willpower, the user knows the exact location of target, this power lasts for a scene or hour or until the user is within eyesight of the target.

Date of Archival: 21-Jul-2018

Anarch Coordinator

Placeholder for Combination Discipline

Custom Content Category: Discipline

XP Cost: 0XP

MET Mechanics:

This is a placeholder for any combination discipline that requires another combination discipline to learn it. Please see the writeup for details of which one.

Date of Archival: 15-Dec-2018

Nosferatu

Portalis

Custom Content Category: Discipline

XP Cost: 0XP

MET Mechanics:

Portalis: Spend 1 willpower to activate the discipline for scene or hour.

Portalis 1: Spend 1 blood to enhance a single held firearm. While enhanced, the weapon fires from any point within line of sight, rather than from the barrel of the gun. This can make it difficult or impossible to tell where the shot was fired from.

Portalis 2: While Portalis is active, you can manipulate simple objects at a distance.

Portalis 3: Spend 1 blood to enhance a single held melee weapon, or your unarmed strikes. Attacks with the enhanced weapon strike from any point in your line of sight as a ranged attack. Lasts a number of attacks equal to level of Portalis.

Portalis 4: Spend 1 blood to transport items within your line of sight. You can grab unattended objects that you could reasonably hold in your arms. Objects held by other characters requires a contested physical challenge. Alternatively you can 'throw' items you're holding. Stakes thrown this way require 3 simple tests.

Portalis 5: Spend 1 blood while enhancing a weapon using another level of this discipline. Attacks made with the enhanced weapon may attack up to three targets within line of sight. Each target beyond the first requires the user to bid an additional trait on the attack. (ex: 1st target 1 trait, 2nd target 2 traits, 3rd target 3 traits). Resolve each target as a separate challenge.

XP Per In Clan Costs. ie (3/3/6/6/9)

Date of Archival: 20-Mar-2017

Sabbat

Predatorism

Custom Content Category: Discipline

XP Cost: 0XP

MET Mechanics:

Inceptor: Predatorism

1.) Echolocation: [blood] gain the sonar of a bat.

2.) Insects Edge: [blood] may walk on walls and ceilings.

3.) Hide of the Hunter: [blood] 1/2 your level of Predatorism adds to all stealth tests.

4.) Hunter's Instincts: [blood] 1/2 your level of Predatorism adds to all awareness and animal ken tests.

5.) Pheromones: [willpower] +2 traits agains any target who can smell you. You must have successfully won a social test against the target or held a conversation with them. Strong winds may render this useless.

Date of Archival: 03-Feb-2015

Gangrel

Pyros

Custom Content Category: Discipline

XP Cost: 0XP

MET Mechanics:

Pyros:

Tempered Heart: Add your rating in Pyros to your Courage when fire would cause Rotshreck. If this raises your Courage above 5, you need not test. Permanent.

Fiery Touch: Light your hand or a non-projectile weapon you hold on fire. It gains the Incendiary property, converting the first level of damage it deals to aggravated damage. Costs 1 Vitae, lasts the scene.

Cinderflesh: Treat damage from fire as lethal. Permanent.

Furnace Breath: Make a physical challenge against an opponent within ten yards, retest Athletics. A hit deals two aggravated damage and lights the target on fire, dealing one damage per round until the targets spends a full round extinguishing themself. Costs one Vitae; spray attacks may be made if multiple Vitae are spent.

Molten Veins: Whenever you take lethal or aggravated damage from a physical attack, one target within three steps of you must dodge an attack with a static value of your current Blood pool. If they fail, they take aggravated damage equal to the number of damage levels dealt to you. Anyone consuming your blood takes damage equal to Blood consumed automatically. Costs 3 Vitae, lasts the scene.

Unliving Inferno: Your blood boils forth in fire, consuming all that it touches. You must spend two Blood per round that this power lasts, and take two damage per round (reduced to lethal by Cinderflesh); your unarmed attacks deal two additional aggravated damage, and anyone striking you unarmed or grappling you takes two aggravated damage.

Date of Archival: 21-Feb-2015

Sabbat

Reality Map

Custom Content Category: Discipline

XP Cost: 0XP

MET Mechanics:

Reality Map You are dipping your toes into the vagaries of fate, and it responds. This Discipline uses the Enigmas ability as a retest Upon learning the first level of this Discipline, the character learning it gains the 4 point flaw,

Walking the Twisted Kingdom Danger Tingle

Basic 1: Permanently gain the benefits and drawbacks of the Danger Sense Merit. There was this spider dude once… who had this tingle… it’s kinda like that. All the hairs on the back of your neck crinkle like a spider tickling them… it’s not a good tingle.

Detect Strings

Basic 2: Make a contested mental challenge, if you win you may find out your target's nature, or a merit or flaw or an active derangement. The User chooses the category, the target chooses what information from that category. The target of the power may give the same information in multiple uses. Trying to understand when, and where, and who… watching someone carefully leads to clarity of who and when they are. You need to clarify something, which timeline is this? Let me see you.. Stand still. Yes…. ok… .. AH! Right! You’re that version of you.

Fortune Cookie

Intermediate 3: Make a Static Mental challenge (difficulty determined by ST) if you win, Storyteller will give you a minor piece of information regarding a plot you are involved in. This power can be used once per scene or at ST discretion. You walk down the alleyway to Elysium and ponder about a current path of fate you’re following. You trip over a clue to your investigation in your mind remembering a piece of the report that doesn’t exist yet. This is taking that path tomorrow, today.

Profiling Probability

Intermediate 4: Make a Contested Mental challenge against a Target. On a win You get a single retest against the target on any one challenge for the remainder of the scene. If you tie nothing happens regardless of trait totals, if the challenge is failed outright or by retest then the Target gets a retest vs you on the next challenge they throw with you. Sometimes knowing all the paths someone takes or will take or has taken muddies the waters, both for you and for them. With every decision a new them is created. Even if they don’t know it. When exceptionally focused you can determine which they they are and get the upper hand. This may however backfire, when you pick the wrong they and they are not the they you thought they were and thus they have the upper hand.

Tomorrow, A Better Today, Yesterday

Advanced 5: At the beginning of the session, the user makes a Willpower Challenge difficulty 4 or 2 times their Generation Background, whichever is higher. If Successful the user may spend a Willpower and 2 Blood traits, then spend up to 3 Mental Traits. For each Mental Trait spent the user of this power gets one change marker. A change marker may be used to change the result of a failed challenge into a tie once per action. (Make an Item card to track these uses and have a storyteller sign off on them.) Mental traits spent in this fashion may not be recovered or refreshed until the change marker they were spent on is used. These change markers last for the game session. The path of the evening is exceptionally unclear and you definitely recall more bad todays then good todays occurring. Reflecting on the possibilities, these mental railroad switches help you prepare yourself to guide a bad today down the path of a good today. In some cases, a less worse today than could be today to help ensure there is a future today for you to enjoy.

Date of Archival: 18-Jun-2020

N/A

Repairing the Turtle’s shell

Custom Content Category: Discipline

XP Cost: 0XP

MET Mechanics:

Repairing the Turtle’s shell - There was really no subset for this, as it is created by a KJ.. and didn't fall into any particular category that I saw... :P

The ritualist carves a Turtleshell out of interlocking pieces of white and red Jade. The ritualist infuses a 1 point of each type of chi (demon chi included) in the ceremony where they call to the guardian’s between the worlds, and carve the spiritual location where the barrier needs to be repaired. This preparation takes an hour and requires the ritualist to be fully aware of the location where the veil needs to be repaired, and which world is spilling into the mortal world. When they take the turtle shell to the location that it needs repaired they throw a mental challenge vs. the difference between the current barrier and where it should be. If there is a power or artifact being used to maintain the destruction of the barrier the challenge is vs. the difference of the barrier plus the level of the power, ritual or artifact. If the ritualist was misled on the world spilling into the mortal world they are down two traits on the mental challenge and nothing will occur if they made a shell for the wrong location

Date of Archival: 21-Feb-2015

N/A

Robotics

Custom Content Category: Discipline

XP Cost: 0XP

MET Mechanics:

This discipline allows the user to create devices and robotic replacement for limbs and body parts. The user can use a amount of devices and/or body parts at the same time at the level of Robotics plus one.

As a additional effect, if a member with this discipline use any supernatural effect that have a visual effect (like any transformation or blood sorcery), it looks like it is a robotic thing. This is only a cosmetic change, without adding ANY mechanic advantage.

Mechanics: The creation of a Robotic device or body part follows the same rules of Master Level Toreador Craft Productions, using Crafts ability for the craft and the retests, substituting social traits for mental ones.

This devices or body parts have one functionality for each level beyond craft 5 on the crafted item, max 3 and 18 mental traits sacrificed. The devices or body parts can't mimics any supernatural power (Discipline, Gift, Sphere, etc.) and should only give mechanical advantages.

The PC must have a item card for each device of body part.

1. A PC must have a craft ability at level five in the area of the piece be produced and have won the craft challenges for the item to be crafts level five (each game runs these differently).

2. Once a week the craftier may spend six permanent mental traits to increase the crafts level of a piece by one until she reaches one mental trait. The character may not use any bonus traits due to items, vicissitude or specializations for this purpose. Also the Character may not buy any mental traits during this time.

3. Then the player may “kill” the character by expending the PC’s life force for an additional craft level, or stay alive and stop where she is.

4. No discipline can make a PC do this (it must be the player’s free will).

Example: A 10th generation Pander with 12 mental traits and a specialization in Robotics creates a level five body replacement. The Pander then spends a week and 6 permanent mental traits to raise the robotic arm to crafts at level six. The Pander now has 6 mental traits and works another week spending 6 more mental traits to raise the artificial arm to crafts at level 7. The Pander now has 0 mental traits and can’t spend six more traits because the specialization cannot be used and the Pander can only go to negative 5 traits. The player decides to kill the character and spends a week and the life force of the Pander and raises the body replacement to level 8. The character is now dead, but has produced a crafts 8 robotic arm.

The body parts are considered always active and don't require activation. The mechanic devices that isn't body parts must be activated with a static mental test against 10 mental traits, with Science (Robotics) as retest. A failure in the test means that the device will jam and don't work on the entire scene.

The implant of body parts must be made with the Vicissitude discipline and have a mental challenge of 8 traits (Body Craft as retest), otherwise the PC will heal on the next day and the implant won't be able to be usable.

Date of Archival: 14-Mar-2019

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