Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

This power allows the Gangrel to temporarily change their animalistic features into their original human form. This power works against all forms of observation or recording.

After spending a Willpower trait, and 1 Blood trait, the user burns a number of Mental Traits equal to the number of Beast Traits/features they wish to disguise. Body Control lasts for one (1) hour, but can be continued for a another hour by spending another trait of blood to fuel the Protean side of the combo. The Gangrel morphs into their original human looking form until this power is 'renewed,' they let it run out or turn it off. Willingly ending this power requires only a thought, but costs nothing.

Anyone using Auspex on the Gangrel will, if they win the challenge, notice that some kind of Obfuscate is being used, but since the change is physical, they will only see a blurry shimmering effect, like heat shimmer over asphalt, surrounding the Gangrel's features.

Name: Bonded Projection
Requirements: Auspex 5, Visceratika 5, Penultimate Scry
Cost: 12 XP

Upon mastering the use of other levels of Auspex with the powers of Visceratika, the Gargoyle has finally unlocked the ultimate mastery of the two powers combined. She can now Psychically Project while Bonded with the Mountain.

MET System: The Gargoyle must spend a Blood to activate Bond with the Mountain, spend a Willpower to activate Psychic Projection, and spend a Mental Trait. Keep in mind, the challenge for seeing the Gargoyle's physical form, and the damage required to eject the body from Bond (as per Laws of the Night Camarilla Guide p. 72) remain the same. The Gargoyle is not aware that her body has been found or ejected from Bond with the Mountain while in Psychic Projection (unless she is in the same location as their body for some reason and can see it happen).

The powers of Vicissitude have long been used to create weapons and armor from flesh and bone, but with precision a thin coating of hardened vampiric bone can be applied to such items - or even themselves - giving them a porcelain-like appearance and greatly increasing their durability.

System: To coat an item in bone, the player makes a Static Dexterity-based Physical test with a difficulty of 9 (retest with Body Crafts), and take one health level of unsoakable lethal damage for every four square feet of surface area which must be covered, as they extrude their own bone into a thin sheet. If successful, the coating hardens immediately and can not be entirely broken unless by a supernatural power of a level exceeding their level of Vicissitude at the time of use. If unsuccessful, they still take the levels of damage, but the coating turns to ash immediately. The coating can only bond with organic surfaces (bone, leather, wood, etc.) and if placed on metal or other inorganic material, the coating turns to ash.

When applied to armor, the wearer gains a Resilient physical trait. Additionally, once per round, they gain a free retest on one Fortitude challenge, as the bone coating deflects some of the blow. Note that while the armor can not be entirely destroyed except by powers exceeding the user’s Vicissitude level, they still take damage once the armor levels are depleted.

When a coated weapon is used to make a successful physical attack, the wielder may make a simple test. On a win or tie, the weapon deals an additional health level of damage.

When undergoing a full-body Vicissitude shape-change (whether entering Horrid Form, or returning to their normal form from another Vicissitude form,) the user may make a Static Stamina-based Physical test with a difficulty of 9 (retest with Body Crafts) as a free action. If successful, the form is coated as though it were armor (though gains no actual armor levels,) and natural attacks are considered to be coated weapons. However, the form gains an alien, porcelain-like surface, making interactions with mortals exceptionally difficult - for the purposes of mortal interactions, they have the negative social traits Eerie x3, in addition to being an obvious breach of vampiric secrecy. If unsuccessful, they take two health levels of unsoakable lethal damage.

It is well renowned in history for the benefits of the Eye of Hazimel. After constant contact with the eye, the wielder of this power has learned how to temporarily tap into the benefits of the Eye itself. The power has drawbacks as well as rewards, as channeling such a powerful relic is beyond the control of most vampires. This combination is a reward from the Hazimel plot, and may not be taught by the player once learned.

System: This combination power costs a willpower and a blood to use. It calls for a static social challenge, difficult 7 to activate, and may only be used once per night. Once activated, the user takes a +1 penalty to frenzy challenges, and may not benefit from any power to negate frenzy nor expend willpower to subdue it. The boon lasts for one scene or hour. The boon grants three uses of a temper based retest (willpower, rage, etc.) that may be called upon during the scene, even beyond powers that prevent the user from using such tempers (but not for permanent expenditures). In the case of defensive powers that require someone to have a specific trait to make the challenge (such as rage and a hamonry flute), the user may instead use one of these defensive traits to force the challenge to be thrown as if they had one level of said trait.

You have learned to take the steps neccassary to avoid being scried, divined upon, or detected/found by other forms of divination like means. Examples include scry, illuminate the trail of the prey, etc... While you may still find fate's blessing, things like fortune telling, looking at your iChing, these do not work for you. While you hide from others, others can not help you to warn of the future.