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.
Swallowing Darkness 2.1 (Advanced Abyss Mystic Ritual)
In modern nights, there have been reported incident after incident of ‘irregularities’ within the Abyss, if such a word is indeed applicable to The Void. Among these irregularities is a disturbing tendency for portals or holes into the Abyss to manifest in the world of the Kine, causing problems for Sabbat Dioceses nationwide. Swallowing Darkness provides the Mystic a tool for resolving such problems.
When confronted with an Abyssal Breach, portal, hole, or passage of any kind, the Mystic may cast this Ritual over the course of half an hour by chanting in ancient tongues. If the Mystic is disturbed during the course of the casting, they suffer the consequences for failing the Ritual. At the culmination of the Ritual, the Mystic opens his mouth wide and begins to inhale, making a Static Mental challenge against a difficulty determined by the size of the breach: 6 Traits for a relatively small breach, all the way up to 10 or more Traits for a truly disastrous rift. If the challenge is successful, the portal closes. The Mystic takes a level of Lethal Damage for each trait of difficulty in the challenge; this damage may not be prevented by any type of Armor, but may be reduced with Fortitude.
Should the breach in question be under the active control of an entity - Abyss Mystic, Demon, or Abyssal Spirit, for example - the Static Mental challenge is replaced with an opposed Mental Challenge between the two parties, with Occult or Abyss Lore being the appropriate retest, and the Mystic suffers an amount of lethal damage equal to the current Mental Traits of the opposing entity. Once again, the damage may not be prevented by Armor of any sort, but may be reduced with Fortitude.
Should the Mystic fail, the breach immediately begins vomiting forth a mixture of Things in Darkness and Hearts of Silence, which assault everyone in the area. There should be at least as many Abyssal entities vomited forth as the difficulty of the challenge.