Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Bloodhound Gift

The agents of Apophis are often as elusive as they are bold, frequently hiding in plain sight as they engage in their nefarious schemes. Those who dedicate their nights to repelling this threat have a wealth of experience with ferreting out their enemies, and this experience has coalesced into a technique referred to as Bloodhound Gift, which allows them to scent out the various nuances of corrupted blood while it is still nearby.

System: Once learned, this power is always active. The vampire can smell nearby blood which is tainted by Apophis, even if it is currently within a sealed vessel such as a blood bag (or a body), though the character must be close enough to catch the target’s scent, which is usually within 3 yards unless other factors are in play. Furthermore, they can parse out the subtle differences in scent to glean relevant information about a particular sample of blood. This information does not come automatically, however; the vampire must focus on a particular subject to get anything more than generic corruption. The player makes a Static Mental Challenge (difficulty of 7 traits; retest with Investigation). If successful, the player may ask the Storyteller for a single piece of information from the chart below and receive a truthful answer.

• Presence of absence of drugs, alcohol, or other foreign substances
• Creature Type (vampire / ghoul / bane mummy / etc.)
• Mortal health concerns
• Blood-related Merits / Flaws
• Relative strength (ie. Generation / Rank / etc.)
• Age of a mortal to within 5 years, or of an immortal to within 50 years
• Supernatural subgroup (ie. vampire Clan / garou Tribe / mage Tradition / etc.)