Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

This combination discipline modifies the animal form of a vampire using Protean: Shape of the Beast to something more akin to a lycanthrope in its hybrid form. To the untrained eye you appear as a terrible werecreature. The vampire's muscles roil and boil as they take on this form, their body stretching and contorting until the Metamorphosis takes hold fully.

System: When activating Protean: Shape of the Beast the vampire may spend a temporary willpower in addition to the normal cost for Shape of the Beast. The Vampire's animal form retains its normal mass, but has an upright stance that allows it to walk on two legs, two arms instead of front legs or wings, and hands in which the fingers end in claws. In this form the Vampire gains all of the normal benefits of Protean: Shape of the Beast along with the drawbacks. This power may be used in conjunction with powers or merits that speed up the transformation time of Protean: Shape of the Beast. While this power may fool some, this power will never deceive the spirits, the shifters, nor their kin.

Psychic Vampirism (Dementation 3, Auspex 4, Eat Food)

To internalize something is to understand it; blood is the essence of a person; by eating the body, it is possible, with the right kind of hunger, to consume the mind. When feeding, for every 2 blood traits (or 1 damage in flesh eaten), you may drain 1 mental trait OR 1 Willpower trait from the victim for the night, and ask 1 question about the victim or something they know. Once per victim per night, you may swallow a non-blood body part (minimum some hair or nails) and a personal effect such as a scrap of clothing, in order to drain 1 more trait and ask 1 more question. This happens automatically if you are feeding on flesh. Traits may only be increased to 3 mental and 1 willpower above gen limit, but theoretically any number can be removed from the target. As the hungry Malkavian cannot partake of a mind without imbibing its madness, you gain one of the victim’s Derangements for the night (if none, Sanguinary Animism instead). Since this power requires successfully feeding, there is no challenge and it cannot be “resisted”.

To use this power the user must engage his/her target in a static mental challenge (retest with investigation). After succeeding in the challenge the user may expend a mental trait to find out if his/her target possesses the power of Quietus. By expending an additional mental the user may find out what level of Quietus his/her target possesses.

By focusing his/her heightened awareness and physical prowess, a kindred can "feel" for which of the physical gifts of Caine another Kindred may have learned. Potence manifests as a vibration of the muscle, Fortitude generates a cold rigidity in the body, Celerity causes a brief feeling of vertigo, and Temporis causes loss of time.

System: To learn which of the four disciplines another character possesses, the player must succeed in a static mental challenge against the target character's Mental Traits. If he/she succeeds, he/she may spend one Mental Trait per Discipline to learn what level the target has of each.