Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

In Hebrew Lore a Golem is a creature made of stone or clay and magically animated to protect others. Rumor has it that some of these stories rose from rebel Gargoyles protecting communities that gave them sanctuary after the Gargoyle Revolt. This power inverts the normal ability to fuse down into stone to, instead, draw stone up into the user infusing them with phenomenal resistance to damage. The result is a living statue with incredible durability at the price of increased weight.

System: The user spends 1 Blood Point and must touch, or be within 1 foot, of a suitable type of stone as described under Bond With the Mountain. Over two turns tendrils and chunks of the relevant material tear free from their locations and run, like heatless lava, ripping through, or flowing around, any obstacles that flowing stone could reasonably circumvent or push through, to reach the user and meld with their body. The process can be reduced to one turn for an additional Blood Point. A minimum of half the user's normal body weight of the relevant substance must be present for this power to work.

The entire mass being absorbed need not be within this powers range so long as the mass is one contiguous source, pieces joined by mortar, cement or other natural mineral adhesive count, and a portion of the mass falls within the power's range.

When successfully activated the user gains Bond With the Mountain's damage conversion capability as their body takes on the appearance and consistency of whatever they have absorbed. This power, an obvious Masquerade Breach, lasts until the following sunset, or until consciously deactivated and while active the user cannot carry additional people using the Flight Discipline without some other power to modify their weight.

Once this power's effect ends the Gargoyle's body consumes the absorbed stone and returns to normal. This power cannot be used in conjunction with Bond With the Mountain's, or Armor of Terra's, damage conversion capabilities. Armor of Terra's fire protection may still be used and indeed a Gargoyle using this power cannot catch on fire or combust while this power is in effect though they still suffer whatever damage that makes it through their defenses.