Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Bending Blood to Will

Blood Shintai 4, Obligation 4

Cost: 10xp

The Kuei-jin may now command the very blood in a target’s body, using it to puppet their movements with but a thought.  The Kuei-jin must spend 1 Yang Chi and 1 Willpower, then defeat their target in a Social Challenge (retest Empathy). If the Kuei-jin is successful, they may dictate their target’s physical actions for the duration of the Scene - and, in the case of Kindred, their Blood expenditures, as well.  Doing this, however, uses up the Kuei-jin’s own action. As a result, opponents with supernatural speed (Rage, Celerity, etc) may be able to ‘power through’ the Kuei-jin’s control if they come to a point in the round where the victim has an action, and the Kuei-jin has none to command them. This power has several other limitations: it will not work on creatures with no blood in their body (Spirits, Wraiths, vampires with no blood left in their pool, Kuei-jin who subsist only on breath or osmosis), and the target may continue to struggle against the Kuei-jin’s control by spending a Willpower and attempting a new Social Challenge every time the wielder of this Discipline attempts to dictate their movements.  When such a victim has no Willpower remaining, their body is a slave to the Kuei-jin’s commands for the remainder of the scene. Note that, for purposes of determining whether the user gains the +3 Social Trait bonus from an active use of Authority, this power counts as Obligation.