Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

If you succeed in beating your target in the challenge the ferocity of the encounter starts to overwhelm them. As they start to sense you striking at them from the wrong direction. Putting them off balance on how to defend against your real strike.  This is accoplished by using the powers of obfuscate to redirect your victims perceptions and force them to sense you coming from another direction by displacing your presence. 

Mechanic: Engage in a contested mental test. Retest is Tactics. If you best your target in the challnge you may expend up to three traits to increase your cap for comparison on ties in any challenge with the target for the scene for each trait spent. Further you may gain a fient retest for the scene that can be used against them. This retest can be canceled with Alertness. 

With the deadly venom and toxins of your studies, you can transmute your blood into a substance that weaken and poisons your victims. You can then coat weapons with this foul ichor, spit at your foes or simple bring it to the surface of your skin to affect your victim by touch. Unwary Foes may actually drink such tainted vitae

              Each Blood Trait that you spend on this power is converted into a dangerous poison. If this tainted vitae touches a victim or is otherwise ingested into her system, she loses one Social Trait automatically. Thus, you can strike someone with your hand (and a physical challenge) and cause the victim to lose an additional Trait due to your venom. You can coat weapons of dagger-size or larger with this poisonous blood or even kiss your opponent. You can even make a Physical Challenge against anyone within 10 feet to spit this blood at a victim.

              Any given attack may only use one Trait of blood with this power, though multiple attackers with poisoned weapons could wreak deadly havoc on a single victim. Similarly, you can only spit a single Trait of this tainted vitae or strike unarmed with a single Blood Trait in each action. Altering your blood in this fashion does not require an action on your part – you can strike an opponent with your hand, for instance, and then declare the use of Crypt Rot with a single Blood Trait. You can concentrate multiple Blood Traits onto a single weapon, though each strike uses only one Trait of blood (and thus reduces only one Social Trait from the victim). Of course, preparing yourself thus is a legitimate tactic if you think you will be in a pronounced fight and want a weapon sufficient for several strikes.

Fortitude level 5, Dominate level 5 (The Fortitude 5 is for the totality of body, and the Dominate 5 is for the investiture of spiritual essence into body)

This power was designed to protect against the sorts of techniques that Tremere and other blood mages are famous for. Specifically the theft of Blood and other parts of a person's body to be used as a sympathetic link for powers like Path of Curses, Scry, etc. The way it works is simple; While this power is active, any part of your physical body (hair, blood, eyelash, ashes, skin flakes, anything) that is seperated from your body instantly looses any and all significance, worth and utility for all mystical powers/abilities,such as scrying, theft of blood via Engage the Vessel of Transference, Path of Curses, or anything else. In other words, no one will ever be able to take a sympathetic link from your body. This also includes 'beneficial' reasons to remove part of your body. For example, while this power is active, you cannot embrace childer or blood bond a ghoul, since the moment the blood leaves your body, it instantly becomes generic dead blood. This power does not prevent you from expending blood normally. If a blood mage uses Path of Blood level 4, Theft of Vitae, on a Kindred with this power, the blood mage will not be blood bound, but the target of Theft of Vitae will still loose blood points as normal.

Once learned, this power is always active, unless specifically deactivated in the following way; Normally upon awakening at sunset each evening, a Kindred must spend a blood point to wake up. If a Kindred with this power wants to deactivate it for the evening (for example if they plan to embrace a childer that night), then they must expend an additional level of permanent willpower along with the blood point when they awaken, just as if they had activated Fortitude level 5. If they do this, then they will loose all levels of Dominate and Fortitude for the entire evening, until they go back to sleep again the next morning.

Note that the power can be detected by the observant. Upon removal, blood will congeal, hair will whiten, tissue gets britle, and generally speaking stuff will visibly loose vitality.

Current Rider (Steal the Terrible Swiftness, Protean 2) Exp: 4

Another trick of Morgan Andros who learned the combination discipline Steal the Terrible Swiftness and discovered it was worthless when swimming.  He designed this technique to fix such a silly issue so that he could move as quickly in his native terrain as he did on land.

Mechanics:  As per Steal the Terrible Swiftness but the user may now use it while swimming after performing at Statis Physical Challenge, retest Athletics against 10 traits.  This does not allow them to do anything they could not normally do such as braving depths they could not normally withstand.

This combo can only be taught by Morgan Andros

A vampire who masters the arts of Technia can learn to combine them with their own supernatural ability to enhance their senses.  By doing so, the vampire can start to graft advanced technology to themselves, similar in a way that members of clan Tzimisce work flesh and bone into horrifying weapons.  A body, however, can only hold so many modifications.  While a master of this combination discipline can certainly change modifications they make out, there will always be an upper limit.

System:  Once purchased this combination discipline is always active. With this combination discipline the character may purchase any of the following Enhancements at a cost of 2 experience points apiece. The maximum number of modifications a character may possess at any time is equal to their level of Computers Ability.  The mechanics for these modifications can be found in Laws of the East starting on page 280.  All costs for use of these modifications is replaced with blood.
• Emotion Suppressers
• Night Eyes
• Video Eyes
• Spy Eyes
• Tasers
• Sheaths
• Cyberclaws
• Psi-Band Radio
• Snake Fangs
• Enhancers
• Vibroblades
• Grenade Launchers
• Internal Tracking Gear
• Web Spinners
• Field Armor
• Keypads
• Kabuki Masks