Custom Discipline

This is a power that works on Knowledge, starting from character's own collected information.  As this power advances, moving from a subconscious to a conscious level the voices will start to take note

and bring it upon themselves to help.  At its most advanced they reach out into the network to bring to the character what ever they may need at the moment.  This is very powerful but is dangerous as well.  There are those out there who may not wish to be disturbed.

 

Challenge difficulties for this power are at ST discretion.  Depending on the rarity of the information the difficulty can change, the table below is a suggested scale.

 

3 traits - Common knowledge: Driving a stick-shift or basic algebra equations

5 traits - Uncommon or specific knowledge: The proper ratios for an oxyacetylene torch or which Chinese emperor decreed that there be a tax on goat milk

7 traits - Rare or restricted knowledge: proper bomb disarming procedures or the incantations required to perform the Catholic rite of Exorcism

10+ traits- Dangerously specific knowledge, Blackhand code glyphs or which powers are granted to those who deal with the infernal

 

1. Expeditious Retention: the Character gains eidetic memory for all material she has read.  This extends to photographic recall of text even if she does not understand the language.

 

2. That Looks Easy: Rather than spend a willpower to enter an unfamiliar challenge (ie car chase scene in a stick-shift when she has no drive ability) spend a mental trait and then makes a mental

challenge, retesting with academics, to recall enough information to attempt the challenge.  This is only to enter the challenge, gain no retests from this power.

 

3. Well Read: Gain a final additional retest in all academics challenges similar to Might but focused only on academics related challenges.

 

4. Dancing on Cobwebs: The boys have now taken notice.  When the character's need is great they take it upon themselves to reach out across the malkavian network to find and borrow the information the character needs.  The character may spend a willpower and enter a mental challenge to gain one temporary level of any ability or lore.  This level may be used as a retest as usual but if not used vanishes at the end of the scene.  This phantom ability stacks on top of the character's current abilities but can only be used once per ability per scene.

 

Costs of Failure:

 

2. Character gets reality confused with fiction and may enact the plot of the book she got the knowledge from.

 

4.This is a dangerous power rattling around on the cobweb, at the ST’s discretion on a failure the character might still get the information she seeks, but the boys made something angry in the process, and it knows where character is.