Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Moving while celerity is active leaves momentary flickering after images behind, giving a Might-like retest on Dodge chops. This is the last retest that can be called.

This power can be suppressed for a scene at no cost, but cannot be reinabled until the scene is done.

Requires: Auspex 1, Path of the World’s Blood 1, Alchemy 1

To master a thing, one must first understand it entirely. Experienced Alchemists developed a deeper sense for the properties and functions of the materials they worked with. When the Telyavelic Tremere left the Pyramid, many left their laboratories and scientific equipment at home. By adapting Heightened Senses and their deep ties to nature and magic, Telyavelic Tremere may study and analyze natural and unnatural elements without equipment.

System: The thaumaturge focuses upon an object and engages in a static mental challenge in order to discern the non-magical physical and chemical properties of the object (mass, chemical composition, drug use effects/side effects, etc.). Magical Properties of an object should be determined using Thaumaturgical Sight. This power does not work on living and un-living creatures, but may provide some insights into robotics at storyteller discretion.

Flavor:
Your mastery of the Beast is so complete that you are able to make yourself seem 'larger than life' and far more powerful, through a controlled loosening of the chains that hold the Beast back. By channeling the feral hunger inside yourself into a presence of command and intimidation; you magnify yourself in a way that may draw the attention of all those around you. It is a risky thing to loosen the chains of the Beast, but sometimes a risk must be taken for far greater reward.

Mechanics:
By spending 1 Blood Trait, the user is able to channel their beast and temporarily gain +3 Social Traits for a short duration of time. This manifests as their beast flaring through their very presence.
If this power is used outside of a combat situation (in a social, non-combat situation) it lasts for 1 minute.
Should combat break out while this power is active; the power is active for the 1st Full Round of combat with no need for additional expenditure to activate.
If this power is being used within a combat situation; spend the 1 Blood Trait (like how one would for use of Celerity), and the power is active for only that round of combat.

Upon activation, the user of this power loses 1 Temporary Self Control/Instinct peractivation; this temporary penalty to Self Control/Instinct is cumulative, and stacks per every activation of this power.
In any round (or any non-combat time) that this power is not active/activated, the user may spend 1 Temporary Willpower to remove 1 level of the Self Control/Instinct Penalty.
The Temporary penalties last per the evening. Spending the Temporary Willpower to restore the Self Control/Instinct traits, or upon waking the next evening: are the only methods which reverse these penalties entirely.

The user may not use this power beyond the amount of Self Control/Instinct traits of which they permanently possess.

A vampire who follows the path of Caine is a serial diablerist. Their hope is to strength their own blood to grow in equal power to Caine.  As Caine has no clan and mastery of all disciplines; members of the Path developed this combination discipline to work towards the same goal.  By devouring the souls of other the Noddist can steal some of their power they knew in life for their own.

System:  Whenever the character diabolrizes another vampire they spend 1 permanent willpower trait to activate this combination discipline.  If they do so, the character may change one of their in clan disciplines for one the victim possessed instead.  This ne discipline will replace the previous in clan discipline chosen by the user.  A Character may do this a number of times equal to their permanent willpower rating.

This combination discipline only works if the character is on Path of Caine.

With this power, the Gargoyle has honed his connection with structures to the point that he can subsume a single building with his emotional state and impress it on any visitors, the air becoming filled with a sense of dread or security. He may also use a more forceful variant of this power, allowing him a full emotional switch to all its occupants, inflicting on them bursts of rage, fits of hysterical joy or pangs of ravenous hunger.

System: The more subtle use of this power is in effect as long as the Gargoyle is in the structure and wishes it receive his ambience; no roll or expenditure is needed to activate it. Any individual observing or occupying the building in question will feel a palpable sense of the Gargoyles emotional state, irrespective of what emotion they’re feeling. This phenomenon is always in place, and the Gargoyle may not turn it off. Multiple Gargoyles with this power and either viniculum or blood bond to each other can affect the same place. The active use of the power requires the Gargoyle to spend a Willpower point and one social trait per intended target and make a static Social challenge, retest empathy, vs 9 traits If successful, this causes a number of targets in the building, selected by the user, to make a self-control/instinct or courage check based on the intended emotional state. If the intended effect of this power is to cause frenzy, whether Rotschreck or otherwise, the challenge must be opposed by the intended target, rather than static by the user. Those who fail or are unable to resist immediately feel a change in emotion to that of the Gargoyle’s choosing. The floors being targeted must be connected to the Gargoyle’s own story as the emotional shock wave bursts forth. Judicious use of Ambiance may only require the top floor of a building to be affected with fear in order to clear the entire structure, however, as herd mentality takes over and kine flee from the unknown threat that the power’s victims seem to be running from. Gargoyles can also attain a level of security from this power while outside of their Eyrie, as any allies in their Eyrie will receive warning of a change in his emotional state whenever the Gargoyle becomes endangered, and can move to respond to the threat.