Custom Discipline
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.
Custom Content Category: Discipline
XP Cost: 0XP
MET Mechanics:
The Lie
The possessor of “The Lie” will henceforth be referred to as “The Liar”. Any individual, group of
individuals, item, device, or thing attempting to determine if “The Liar” is lying, attempting to
force “The Liar” to tell the truth, or even pull truthful information from “The Liar’s” mind will
henceforth be referred to as “The Lie Detector”. "The Lie" is an Inceptor Discipline that enables
the “The Liar” to become a near perfect liar. "The Lie" is a subtle power and is undetectable by
any means. "The Lie" binds with “The Liar’s” very being upon learning it and as such functions
rather or not they are in their own body. Even if “The Liar” were to die “The Liar” would keep
“The Lie” in the afterlife. Allowing “The Liar” their secrets even in death. All static challenges
made with “The Lie” retest with the subterfuge ability.
Getting Away With The Lie It is almost impossible to tell “The Liar” is lying through
nonmagical means. System: When any form of nonmagical lies detection is successfully used
against “The Liar”; They may make a static mental challenge vs the “The Lie Detector” where
“The Liar” wins on ties, and has one “Free Retest” this retest is always the final retest. Should
“The Liar” win the challenge “The Liar” may inform “The Lie Detector” that “The Liar” is being
truthful when “The Liar” is not. Example: Ji m want to know if Dave is being truthful with him so
he uses the Empathy ability to try and find out if Dave is being truthful. Jim wins the challenge
so The player of Dave would now have to inform the player of Jim that he is lying, but wait Dave
has “The Lie” so he engages Jim in the static mental challenge outlined above and wins. The
player of Dave now gets inform Jim that his character is telling the truth.
Becoming The Lie When “The Liar” lies even “The Liar’s” soul can help guard “The Liar’s”
secrets. System: When “The Lie Detector” successfully reads the “The Liar’s” aura “The Liar”
may make a static mental challenge vs the “The Lie Detector” where “The Liar” wins on ties,
and has one “Free Retest” this retest is always the final retest. Should “The Liar” win the
challenge “The Liar” may inform “The Lie Detector” that “The Liar’s” aura shows no sign of
deceit. Example: Jim want to know if Dave is being truthful with so he uses Auspex to read
Dave aura to find out if there is deceit in it. Jim wins the challenge so The player of Dave would
now have to inform the player of Jim that he has deceit in his aura, but wait Dave has “The Lie”
so he engages Jim in the static mental challenge outlined above and wins. The player of Dave
now gets inform Jim that his character has no deceit in his aura.
Feeding The Lie It is almost impossible to force “The Liar” to tell the truth or reveal they are
lying. System: When “The Lie Detector” would successfully force “The Liar” to tell the truth or
reveal that the are lying. “The Liar” may make a static mental challenge vs the “The Lie
Detector” where “The Liar” wins on ties, and has one “Free Retest” this retest is always the final
retest. Should “The Liar” win the challenge “The Liar” may freely lie and “The Liar’s” lies will go
undetected. Should “The Lie Detector” employ a continuous effect the benefits of “The Lie” will
last until the effects end. Example: jim believes that Dave has been dishonest with him in the
past and wants to ensure that he won't be able to lie to him so Jim asks Dave to hold a “bone of
ies” and answer some questions. Dave agrees knowing that he has “The Lie” Dave goes to lie
with the “bones of lies” in his hand which would normally balcken signifying that Dave is lying
then force him to tell the truth. But when Dave goes to Lie he engages the bone of lies in a static
mental challenge outlined above and wins. Now the bone of lies does not blacken and does not
force Dave to tell the truth allowing Dave to lie with impunity.
Enforcing The Lie “The Liar” has become so good at lying that even his mind may lie to “The
Lie Detector” attempting to pull truthful information from “The Liar's” mind. System: When “The
Lie Detector” successfully Gains access to “The Liar's” mind, “The Liar” may make a static
mental challenge vs the “The Lie Detector” where “The Liar” wins on ties, and has one “Free
Retest” this retest is always the final retest. Should “The Liar” win the challenge “The Liar” may
give “The Lie Detector” false information for as long as “The Lie Detector” has access to “The
Liar’s” mind. Example: Jim wants to get some about Dave and does not want Dave to be able
to Lie to him. So Jim uses Auspex to break into Dave mind. Which normally would put Dave in a
very bad spot because he has been lying to Dave about well everything. However Dave has
“The Lie” and after Jim gains access to he wins the static challenge outlined above so for as
long a Jim has access to Dave’s mind he may feed him false information. Telling Jim that he has
flaws or negative traits that he does not actually have, or even telling Jim false surface thoughts
or not Telling Him the ones he should be having and may continue to do so till Jim loses access
to Dave's mind.
Living The Lie “The Liar” may maintain composer under any situation it is almost impossible
to break their will. System: The torture ability or anything else that would cause “The Liar” to
lose willpower has no effect on “The Liar”. If a power, ability, item... would simply prevent “The
Liar” from using willpower the kindred wins on ties and has one “Free Retest” this “Free Retest”
is always the “The Liar's” final retest. Example: Jim wants to break Dave’ will so that he can get
the truth out of him. Jim starts by using Animalism on Dave to quell him but Jim finds this to be
most difficult as Dave has “The Lie” and wins on ties and has a free retest against such powers.
After failing to quell Dave, Jim decides that he will torture him to break his will so that he can’t
help but tell the truth. But after weeks, months, years of torture Jim has gotten no closer to
breaking Dave's will then when started.
Date of Archival: 28-Feb-2018
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