Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

The powers of Vicissitude have long been used to create weapons and armor from flesh and bone, but with precision a thin coating of hardened vampiric bone can be applied to such items - or even themselves - giving them a porcelain-like appearance and greatly increasing their durability.

System: To coat an item in bone, the player makes a Static Dexterity-based Physical test with a difficulty of 9 (retest with Body Crafts), and take one health level of unsoakable lethal damage for every four square feet of surface area which must be covered, as they extrude their own bone into a thin sheet. If successful, the coating hardens immediately and can not be entirely broken unless by a supernatural power of a level exceeding their level of Vicissitude at the time of use. If unsuccessful, they still take the levels of damage, but the coating turns to ash immediately. The coating can only bond with organic surfaces (bone, leather, wood, etc.) and if placed on metal or other inorganic material, the coating turns to ash.

When applied to armor, the wearer gains a Resilient physical trait. Additionally, once per round, they gain a free retest on one Fortitude challenge, as the bone coating deflects some of the blow. Note that while the armor can not be entirely destroyed except by powers exceeding the user’s Vicissitude level, they still take damage once the armor levels are depleted.

When a coated weapon is used to make a successful physical attack, the wielder may make a simple test. On a win or tie, the weapon deals an additional health level of damage.

When undergoing a full-body Vicissitude shape-change (whether entering Horrid Form, or returning to their normal form from another Vicissitude form,) the user may make a Static Stamina-based Physical test with a difficulty of 9 (retest with Body Crafts) as a free action. If successful, the form is coated as though it were armor (though gains no actual armor levels,) and natural attacks are considered to be coated weapons. However, the form gains an alien, porcelain-like surface, making interactions with mortals exceptionally difficult - for the purposes of mortal interactions, they have the negative social traits Eerie x3, in addition to being an obvious breach of vampiric secrecy. If unsuccessful, they take two health levels of unsoakable lethal damage.