Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Psychic Vampirism (Dementation 3, Auspex 4, Eat Food)

To internalize something is to understand it; blood is the essence of a person; by eating the body, it is possible, with the right kind of hunger, to consume the mind. When feeding, for every 2 blood traits (or 1 damage in flesh eaten), you may drain 1 mental trait OR 1 Willpower trait from the victim for the night, and ask 1 question about the victim or something they know. Once per victim per night, you may swallow a non-blood body part (minimum some hair or nails) and a personal effect such as a scrap of clothing, in order to drain 1 more trait and ask 1 more question. This happens automatically if you are feeding on flesh. Traits may only be increased to 3 mental and 1 willpower above gen limit, but theoretically any number can be removed from the target. As the hungry Malkavian cannot partake of a mind without imbibing its madness, you gain one of the victim’s Derangements for the night (if none, Sanguinary Animism instead). Since this power requires successfully feeding, there is no challenge and it cannot be “resisted”.