Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

With this power, the Gargoyle has honed his connection with structures to the point that he can subsume a single building with his emotional state and impress it on any visitors, the air becoming filled with a sense of dread or security. He may also use a more forceful variant of this power, allowing him a full emotional switch to all its occupants, inflicting on them bursts of rage, fits of hysterical joy or pangs of ravenous hunger.

System: The more subtle use of this power is in effect as long as the Gargoyle is in the structure and wishes it receive his ambience; no roll or expenditure is needed to activate it. Any individual observing or occupying the building in question will feel a palpable sense of the Gargoyles emotional state, irrespective of what emotion they’re feeling. This phenomenon is always in place, and the Gargoyle may not turn it off. Multiple Gargoyles with this power and either viniculum or blood bond to each other can affect the same place. The active use of the power requires the Gargoyle to spend a Willpower point and one social trait per intended target and make a static Social challenge, retest empathy, vs 9 traits If successful, this causes a number of targets in the building, selected by the user, to make a self-control/instinct or courage check based on the intended emotional state. If the intended effect of this power is to cause frenzy, whether Rotschreck or otherwise, the challenge must be opposed by the intended target, rather than static by the user. Those who fail or are unable to resist immediately feel a change in emotion to that of the Gargoyle’s choosing. The floors being targeted must be connected to the Gargoyle’s own story as the emotional shock wave bursts forth. Judicious use of Ambiance may only require the top floor of a building to be affected with fear in order to clear the entire structure, however, as herd mentality takes over and kine flee from the unknown threat that the power’s victims seem to be running from. Gargoyles can also attain a level of security from this power while outside of their Eyrie, as any allies in their Eyrie will receive warning of a change in his emotional state whenever the Gargoyle becomes endangered, and can move to respond to the threat.