Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

With the deadly venom and toxins of your studies, you can transmute your blood into a substance that weaken and poisons your victims. You can then coat weapons with this foul ichor, spit at your foes or simple bring it to the surface of your skin to affect your victim by touch. Unwary Foes may actually drink such tainted vitae.

Each Blood Trait that you spend on this power is converted into a dangerous poison. If this tainted vitae touches a victim or is otherwise ingested into her system, she loses one Mental Trait automatically. Thus, you can strike someone with your hand (and a physical challenge) and cause the victim to lose an additional Trait due to your venom. You can coat weapons of dagger-size or larger with this poisonous blood or even kiss your opponent. You can even make a Physical Challenge against anyone within 10 feet to spit this blood at a victim.

Any given attack may only use one Trait of blood with this power, though multiple attackers with poisoned weapons could wreak deadly havoc on a single victim. Similarly, you can only spit a single Trait of this tainted vitae or strike unarmed with a single Blood Trait in each action. Altering your blood in this fashion does not require an action on your part – you can strike an opponent with your hand, for instance, and then declare the use of Enfeeble Mind Venom with a single Blood Trait. You can concentrate multiple Blood Traits onto a single weapon, though each strike uses only one Trait of blood (and thus reduces only one Mental Trait from the victim). Of course, preparing yourself thus is a legitimate tactic if you think you will be in a pronounced fight and want a weapon sufficient for several strikes.