Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

The user spends a willpower and makes a social challenge against the target, retest empathy. For every trait spent in a catergory the user can transfer the negs they are under from that category to their target for the next scene or hour. This can be used to temporarily get rid of negs or to influence a target to use against them. Once affected with this combination, the target may not be affected by it again during the same scene/hour and the negs wear off at the end of the scene/hour and transfer back to the user of Contact High. The time cannot be extended with Permanency.

Conversation Distance

Presence 4, Temporis 3

7xp

Sometimes a vampire just needs to have a conversation in peace and quiet. Many a technique, mundane and esoteric alike, has been bent towards this purpose, and Conversation Distance is merely the Kairos’ attempt at just such a feat.

System: With the expenditure of a Willpower and a combination of their force of personality and mastery of time, the Kairos summons another target into a world of frozen time. This effect is similar to Quicksilver Contemplation, with the exception that both the Kairos and their companion can still move and converse with each other, and that it only lasts for 5 minutes from the Kairos’ perspective. Conversation Distance can only be used on a willing companion, though, and no violence can be committed under its auspices. Rumor persists of a more potent version of this ability that can pull a victim into a pocket of frozen time for more sinister purposes.

Requires: Path of bones x4 or Spiritual Thaumaturgy x4, Auspex x4
Special: Only members of House Saturday can learn this combo.

With this power, the conjurer can force a wraith to connect with their own soul, confusing their adversaries when they attempt to see their aura or read their mind.

System: Once the caster is in the presence of a wraith, he spends one willpower point and makes a mental contest against the wraith to activate this power. If successful, the wraith's body overlaps with the caster's body, creating a situation that gives the impression that the wraith is linked to the caster's very soul. The aura reading shows two overlapping auras. Every time someone tries to read the caster's mind while this combo is active, the checks are made against the wraith, and the reading reveals information of the wraith's mind alone. This power's duration is one night or a maximum number of mind readings equals to the caster's level of the Occult ability.

This technique was developed shortly after the Revolt as the children of Virstania fled Ceoris and the other chantries, hiding in any cave, rock formation, and stoney crevice Europe had to offer. On rare occasions, Grotesques would experience the presence of otherworldly beings living side by side with them in their mountain retreats. One such event saw a Gargoyle Scout use her Aura Perception while scrying a cavern to determine its viability for settlement, upon doing so discovering strange presences within the very walls. The presences were in fact beings similarly made of stone, but entirely natural: Elemental spirits embodying the rock and the earth.

System: This power is always active once the Gargoyle has developed her connection to the pure essence of stone, triggering whenever she uses Scry the Hearthstone. She can see, feel, and interact with spiritual beings, from earth elementals to terrible demons to mortal ghosts, which house themselves within or are anchored to this world by a building, cave, or other structure. If the spirit is using other means to hide, this power will only reveal them if the Gargoyle wins an a Mental challenge, retest investigation, vs the being’s Mental traits, retest stealth.