Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Many assassins are trained to utilize a deadly combination of speed and stealth when putting down a target. This power heightens a trained assassin's focus and allows for demonstrations of truly remarkable precision strikes, that deliver multiple blows full advantage of a mark who's let their guard down.

System: The player must declare to the storyteller that they intend to use this combination discipline at the beginning of a surprise action that is taken against an opponent who is not aware of them. The character spends one Blood and one Willpower trait to make a second attack that also benefits from surprise immediately after the first. The second attack may be against the same surprised target or another who meets the criteria but this attack cannot be a "carrier attack" such as Quell the Beast or Thanatosis, nor can it involve the use of status affecting powers or augmentations like Protean Curse or Awakening the Steel. It may however still benefit from Disciplines such as Potence and Celerity. Only damage or staking may be dealt by the second attack such as with a rapid strike with a knife, stake, firearm or unarmed strike.

This is a Player created Combo power that PC’s must learn about in character.

Untamable gives the wielder defensive ties on Animalism, Dominate, and Frenzy invoking Thaumaturgical Effects. While this my sound incredibly beneficial, and in truth it is, it can also greatly endanger the Vampire using it.

Any Vampire that has this combo power is a slave to their beast when they aren't in control. They may not spend Willpower to direct themselves during frenzy. This power is constantly active, including during frenzy. Which makes getting them out of such will be difficult.

Veil of the Magi: Custom Combination Discipline
Requirements: 2nd Intermediate Obfuscate, 2nd Intermediate Dur-An-Ki: Hunter’s Winds
Experience Cost: 14xp
Cost: 1 blood and one willpower.
Duration of effect: 1 Scene
The stars, infinite in brightness and eternal in memory, record our past. At times they share their memories, knowledge and wisdom with others. The Dur-An-Ki practitioners, fluent in the language of Heaven and Earth, know well the stars and their power to reveal secrets.

While beneficial to the Sorcerers of Clan Assamite, this sort of knowledge can also be detrimental to some of their clans’ activities. However, the methods of obfuscation are not enough to protect Haqim’s children from this information slipping into the wrong hands.

To address this problem, a Sorcerer of the clan attempted to combine their powers of obfuscation with the magics of the Path of Hunter’s Winds. What they got from these experiments was not what was expected, but they soon learned that their efforts were not in vain. Ultimately, the Sorcerer was able to combine these gifts to create a means of hiding their actions from the eyes and memories of the stars.

System:

When activated, this power protects the user from any attempts (current or later) to be discovered or seen via powers of divination or scrying. Examples include but not limited to the use of things like Prophesy, Eyes of the past, and divination powers such as oracular ability.

This protection manifests by requiring anyone attempting to utilize these powers to throw a mental challenge against the user. This challenge is retested with stealth for the user of Veil of the Magi vs. investigation for the person attempting to break through the veil. The user of veil of the magi wins ties for this series of challenges, and receives a number of bonus traits equal to their Obfuscate rating.

If the user of Veil of the Magi is successful, there is no information gleaned about their presence during the scene being investigated. It is as if they were never there. Eyes of the past and other powers may reveal information about anyone else present during this time period. Prophesy and powers of divination may provide clues about what happened. However, those clues will not point at the individual protected with this power. This may lead to an interesting vision or view of a scene after the fact, but what it won’t do is provide any clues or insight regarding the user of this power.

Some Nosferatu vampires have developed this combination discipline to increase their own perception and wits.  By clouding their minds from others and calling upon the instincts of an animal and their beast ; the Nosferatu’s mind becomes much more sharp for a brief moment of time.

System:  The Nosferatu spends 1 willpower trait to activate this power for the next immediate Mental challenge. During that time the Nosferatu may add their Obfuscate discipline rating in Bonus Traits to their next mental challenge they are defending in. This combination Discipline may only be learned by members of the Nosferatu Clan.