Custom Blood Magic: Ritual
Some chronicles allow for their players to develop customized powers for their characters. The following is a compilation of player created custom content in OWBN. At this time, custom content that is created and/or used by vampire PC's is required to be listed.
Ephemeral Puppet Hex - Advanced ritual
This powerful ritual allows the thaumaturge to combine transmutive and hexing magics to transfer the essence of a mortal victim into a wax facsimile of a person. The ritual costs 5 blood, 5 mental traits and a willpower to cast, and requires both the incapacitated mortal or ghoul victim and a wax mannequin, which needs bear no resemblance to the victim aside from gender, and must appear basically human.
After placing the victim and the mannequin in a circle drawn in salt, the thaumaturge must chant and dance about the two for three hours, guiding the victim's essence into the mannequin, symbolized by infusing the 5 blood traits required to cast the ritual, and imparting the wax personage with some aspects of humanity. The mannequin's skin will appear as normal skin, hair will appear as normal hair, etc. It has no bodily functions, however, and feels room temperature to the touch. Most observers would mistake the mannequin for a person or kindred. Active heightened senses allows a static mental against the creator's permanent mental traits to notice that the mannequin appears to be a construct. This test is not an Auspex vs. Obfuscate challenge.
During the ritual's duration, the animated mannequin is susceptible to any supernatural power used upon it, such as Dominate (including Possession), Animalism (Quell the Beast) or Thaumaturgical rituals specifically affecting mortals. If the mannequin's flesh is pierced, it will appear to bleed, but the wound looks strangely false, and attackers might notice that their attacks feel as if they are cutting through soft clay. The construct has 5 blood, 5 physical traits, 5 Health levels and doesn’t suffer wound penalties when damaged.
This hex lasts for three nights, ending at Midnight of the third night after the casting, at which time the victim's essence will return and she will awaken confused. If the mannequin is killed, the mortal dies. If the mortal's body is killed, the ritual ends immediately, and the mannequin falls to the ground lifeless, possibly breaking, and definitely confusing onlookers.