Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

With the mastery of self-learned from the technique of the running monkey, a vampire who learns the next step of Clarity of Form may now combine their mystical insights of Auspex with their bodily resilience of Fortitude to purge and toxin, drug or poison from their system.  With a force of well they can control how their body reacts to these substances and force them out of their system if so desired.

System: Spend 1 Willpower and for the next scene or hour the character is immune to all forms of drugs and poisons, including the venoms and toxins of supernatural creatures or those created by supernatural powers.

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The force of your personality now extends beyond your own form. Your ambiance can now extend to protect those around you from the onslaught of their peers. There are times when leaders must stand up against the persecution of others. In these times your strong distaste for violence and arrogance strengthens your Majesty to protect those you feel are being persecuted.

Mechanics

You can activate this ability with a spend of a Willpower and a social trait for each subject under your protection. You may only protect as many people as you have leadership. While under this cloak nobody may insult or attack anyone within. The same rules for breaking Majesty apply to it’s cloak (A willpower must be spent for challenge, no physical violence from it’s member or it breaks, etc.). If anyone violates the provisions of their loaned protection the majesty breaks for everyone. Any challenges made to any of the individuals within must first challenge your majesty. This effect will last for the duration of the scene or a full hour.

DESCRIPTION:  Though Obtenebration is often employed in imposing and flashy ways, traditionally the shadows are as often an instrument of subtlety and fear.  With this technique the obfuscation of the mind is applied to the world of the Abyss to chilling effect, sometimes even for the monsters of the Abyss themselves.

SYSTEM:  This combination discipline allows the user to target abyssal entities and effects with his cloak the gathering as if they were other people.  Thus a shroud could be hidden, or three arms of the Abyss could be concealed for the same cost as three individuals.  Similarly, as your obfuscate now affects the Abyss, the power works both ways.  Abyssal entities and effects may not target you while obfuscated even if their creator can see you unless they possess some ability to pierce your power themselves.  Normal obfuscate/auspex rules apply to this power.

Skinwalker folklore tells stories of the creatures taking different forms, this combination power is an extension of that.

System: The user of this power may expend a Permanent Physical trait to attune the skin of a fallen foe to them, this trait is returned when the user relinquishes that skin. Once this skin is attuned, the user may absorb the skin into their body at the cost of a Temporary Willpower trait, instead of wearing it and sacrificing whatever skin they are already wearing. They may switch the skins they are wearing, for the cost of a Temporary Willpower trait, storing their currently worn skin with one they have attuned with. No skins are discarded during this process. Skins must be willingly relinquished for them to no longer be accessible. The amount of skins that are able to be stored in this fashion is equal to the user's levels in Fortitude, divided by half - rounded down - for a maximum of two stored at any given time, and the one that is being worn.

The user of this power may reflexively spend a temporary Willpower point in order to imbue their clothing with extraordinary resilience for the scene. Once so empowered, so long as the wearer is not rendered torpid or dead, the clothing remains unmarred by even the most catastrophic attacks, baleful flame, or caustic acid. Not only do normal wrinkling and minor stains and tears simply melt away, the clothes henceforth resist tearing, mutilation, staining and soiling, such that all it might take is a tug, a sweep of the hand or two, and it will look as if the clothing was fresh from the dry cleaners, shoe repairman, or whathaveyou. The power only protects the clothing and mundane accessories of the outfit, and it does not lend protection to other items carried on the person or to the wearer themself, nor to any armor plating secreted throughout the clothes. All ablative armor mechanics, damage soaking chops, and similar mechanics remain unchanged, except that the clothing will still look pristine, even with shredded armor plates. For the duration of the scene, the user of this power is considered to have one bonus non-stacking Social Trait against anyone who witnesses an attack which would otherwise substantially damage the clothing but does not, and any round during which a permanent Willpower is spent to activate Aegis, this power may be activated simultaneously with that same spent Willpower, in lieu of its normal cost.