Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Throughout clan history, the Toreador have been gifted with great speed and enhanced senses. Through practice and training, a Toreador named Juno, known for his zealotry to the clan and combat ingenuity sought to combine the clans gifts. Through the practiced focus of the senses, this allows a Toreador to select a single opponent in combat and read their every move. This give the rose a superior advantage in reflexes, both evading and slipping through a foes defense. So focused does the user become on that opponent however, that they are less alert to any others in combat around them.

Artistically, this ability can also be used in certain types of performance or dance where it might be important to impress a single target of the audience. (In this usage it would grant a +1 to the performance ability against that target alone).

MET Rules: This ability costs one temporary willpower to activate and lasts for the scene or one hour. At the beginning of a combat round, a target must be chosen. The user gains three Physical Traits quick against the declared target. However, the user is down one trait against all other opponent's physical challenges that round. Only at the beginning of a new combat round can the target be switched. An additional temporary willpower expenditure is required each time the target is switched.

Used in an artistic performance or dance, it is ST discretion whether this would be appropriate or not. For example a stripper on a pole would work well, but not an orator giving a speech. If applicable, it grants an additional virtual level to the performance on that target only. The performance level may not cross above generational maximum. ( i.e. If normally it is danced with a performance level of three, that target perceives it as a four.)

Tremere Only Combination Discipline, must have a Binding Agreement with the Tremere Coordinator's office to have this combination discipline (or it can be covered as part of an existing Binding Agreement if in certain Tremere Secret Societies).

Requirements:
Hermetic Thaumaturgy Path - Movement of the Mind x5 (Tremere version only)
Hermetic Thaumaturgy Path - Mastery of the Mortal Shell x5 (Tremere version only)

Cost: 18 exp

This combination is a carefully guarded secret of House and Clan, only utilized by those who have approval from the Inner Council of Seven themselves. Of course, should a Tremere misuse this power or attempt to teach without permission, the Inner Council of Seven can and will execute their own sense of consequences upon the magi.

The user must declare a target that is within line of sight, make a grip-like gesture with one or both hands, and spend a single blood and temporary willpower to activate. Once activated, the user makes a contested Mental (User’s) vs Physical (target’s Stamina) challenge against the target. If successful, the target lifts into the air and is crushed (potentially to death).

At the start of each round thereafter, the target may make a contested Physical (Target’s Stamina) vs. Mental (User’s) challenge against the user to break free of the hold. For each round of being crushed, the target takes 2 lethal damage (soakable with Fortitude) and is completely unable to speak, breathe or move.

This requires the full focus of the user unless Dual Thought was activated prior to this power being used. The victim is unable to speak for the remainder of the scene or hour once affected by this power as their throat and lungs are forcibly crushed. This power prevents blood magic that requires a spoken component from being cast by the target for the scene or hour. As the target is also immobilized while being crushed, they are unable to use any powers or items that would require bodily movement or hand gestures. The target is also unable to utilize any physical disciplines or actions while under the effects of this power (excluding Fortitude for the use of damage reduction). If the target does not have any Fortitude, they are unable to resist the use of this power upon them. If the target is able to shift to a non-corporeal form (mist/fog/blood/etc), they may escape from this power, but are still affected by the loss of speech as written.

Long have Thaumaturges sought a way to empower Constructs conjured with their magicks. Through careful study, and perhaps shrewd observation of other Blood magic practitioners, a way has been found to share a Vampire's supernatural strength and durability with conjured Constructs, if only temporarily.

System: After successfully conjuring a Thaumaturgical summoned Creature/animated Construct using one of several Paths of Hermetic Thaumaturgy, the caster can then spend one (1) temporary willpower and 1-5 points of blood to activate this power, up to their permanent Occult rating. For every point of blood spent when this power is activated, the Caster shares one (1) level of Potence or Fortitude with their Summoned Creature/ animated Construct. The Caster may only share levels of Potence or Fortitude that they possess. Once shared, the Caster cannot adjust which levels they have shared without spending another willpower and an appropriate amount of blood to effectively reset their Summoned Creature/ animated Construct.

Summoned Creatures/ animated constructs which have been enhanced by Biothaumaturgy cannot be affected by this power. This power only works on Creatures conjured through Hermetic Thaumaturgy. If this power is used in combat rounds, the generational limitations for blood spent per round still apply.

This power lasts for one scene/hour or matches the normal duration of the summoned Creature, whichever is shorter

Dementation and Presence solidify one’s personal Magnetism. It is simply a Might-like power for social challenges.

This is a carrier attack which costs 1 willpower to activate and requires either you or your victim to be touching raw soil as per Earth Meld.  Upon a successful physical challenge you may engage your victim in a social challenge (retest Animal Ken).  If you win the social challenge your beast is thrown into your victim and drags him down into the earth, where he remains aware of his surroundings. He remains there for the duration of a scene, hour, or you decide to end the power prior to the end of the scene or hour.  While this power is active, you have the drawbacks associated with Drawing Out the Beast including having to "convince" your Beast to come back to you, as well as the inability to Earth Meld yourself. This power cannot be activated within one hour of sunrise as your beast will simply not allow you to kill yourself.