Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Used by the most sadistic of Kindred, this Discipline allows the user to openly stalk his prey, invisible to all but his intended target who is quickly driven mad with fear and paranoia.

System: A subtle manipulation of Cloak the Gathering, the Kindred employing this combination can spend a Perception based mental trait to extend his Cloak to an individual, allowing her to detect his presence as normal without extending his concealment. Additionally, the user may spend a temporary Willpower trait followed by a Manipulation (or Miscellaneous) based social trait to utilize an extra Obfuscate ability while maintaining his own concealment.

Flavor. Shadows are known to follow, but sometimes they lead.

Mechanic. Spend a temporary will power, for the scene or hour your arms of the abyss, dark steel arms, and any variant summon at the beginning of he round and may act during the same round they appear.

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Prerequisites

- Burning Wrath.

- Perception of non-life

- Power 5

- Fast 5

- Auspex 1

After years of using their skills and gifts to strike opponents and also capture its vitality, the vampire can "feel" the heart of the opponent to touch him or hit him, adding heightened senses.

To reach the heart, the vampire must strike the opponent in any part of the body, heart and feel the vibrations send via their various scams (Burning wrath). The heart should reach directly suffer damage and is partially destroyed.

"Feeling the heart"

system:

Prerequisite: N / A

Description: The vampire must touch the opponent.

Testing: Static with the physical difficulty of the opponent

"Heart Attack"

system:

Prerequisite: "Feel the heart," enable burning Fury (Castro Massacre or any other that has as a prerequisite or the principles of Burning Rage).

Description: Striking the opponent.

Test: Test for Fighting (Physical versus physical).

If successful, the opponent will be paralyzed by the amount of damage suffered from a minimum of 1 turn.

The paralyzed opponent can not use any physical discipline, mental or social or have any action during the paralysis.

The opponent can spend a number of traits, equal to the temporary physical damage sustained to ignore / mitigate the effect on the ratio of 1 to 1. Since the first round can not be ignored.

Additional:

- There is no rule to sever the opponent, then it is paralyzed action is blocked.

- To stake, the vampire automatically hits the heart and ignores quality heart unglued once you know the actual location.

- If the attack against the human effect is hit kill (death in a coup).

Heart of the Green I

Auspex 1, Celerity 1

Exp: 3

Retests with, science: botany, agricultural, or, crafts: gardening

A kindred is granted a limited ability to communicate with plants with this gift.

MET: A kindred places a single trait of their vitae into the soil around a plant, actives the discipline and waits 24 hours. The vitae in combination Auspex and Presence interacts with the already present elements through the soil, that secrete soluble chemicals into the soil and transporting them along thread-like networks formed by soil fungi.

Via that soil fungi, a kindred may now communicate directly with that plant, limited to the scope, type and manor in which plants normally communicate with each other. The kindred enacts usage of the discipline by touching the affected soil. Effects last for 30 days on the first application, 30 additional days for each application. After 12 applications, the effect is permanent between that one kindred, and that one plant.

Sample plant communication:

Trees warn each other about insect attacks, and begin pumping out bug-repelling chemicals to ward off attack. They manufacture and deploy chemical and other weapons that make their foliage less palatable or nutritious, so that hungry bugs attack. Plants can communicate with insects as well, sending airborne messages that act as distress signals to predatory insects that kill herbivores. Maize attacked by beet armyworms could releases a cloud of volatile chemicals that attracts wasps to lay eggs in the caterpillars’ bodies. Ants, microbes, moths, even hummingbirds and tortoises all detect and react to these blasts.

Note: The plant is not inherently a ghoul, nor does it require vitae past the initial usage. Subsequent generations of plants are increasingly susceptible to this discipline. The resulting plant grows at a normal rate. The vitae is destroyed in this process, no bonds are created.

Blood fruit, a kindred is granted the ability to grow a plant that can produce blood fruit that is consumable by kindred, “Walkerfrutis”.

Note: The plant is not (inherently) a ghoul, nor does it require blood past the initial usage, vitae is used to guide this new plant’s growth. Subsequent generations will require a one time expenditure of vitae in combination with the application of this discipline to grant the plant the blood fruit ability. The resulting plant grows at a largely normal rate. The vitae is destroyed in this process, no bonds are created.

MET: A one time expenditure of one temporary willpower and one viate are spent in order to activate a single plant with this discipline. When the plant is fed human or animal blood, it is condensed down into a vitae like substance, a slightly dark crimson substance that has an almost syrupy quality. Blood fruit has all the normal metallic smells blood should, as well as a sweet citrus smell and taste. The fruit resembles a tangerine, mandarins or tangelos in size and shape, with a orange-red peelable skin and a dark crimson fruit, and a few seeds inside, depending on the base plant selected, which will affect appearance and harvest months. The plant may grow as large as the base species of citrus tree used, it will suffer the same ill effects as a citrus tree in below freezing temperatures. If the seeds of this plant are planted without the use of this discipline, it will resemble a normal citrus tree with no special abilities.

A plant can produce the base fruits over a period of one month, they resemble deflated tangerine(s), mandarins or tangelos. It takes two traits of blood fed to the plant over a period of one month (or more if the gardner in question wishes to spread out the process) to create a blood fruit, which contains one trait of a vitae like substance. One Walkerfruit equals one blood trait of nourishment. The base fruit is grown, then blood is fed to the plant, and absorbed, making the fruit crimson in color, and plump. Additionally, Walker fruits can store / concentrate more blood over time at the same two-in, one-out ratio per two weeks of care / growing time with a fruit being worth a maximum of four blood traits. The fruit is ripe for about two weeks then will start to over ripen on the tree. A plant can not feed upon its own fruit four the purpose of creating additional fruit, though Walkerfruits do make excellent fertilizer.

A single plant can grow a number of fruits at one time, though the total number of fruits is on any one tree is equal to the users permanent occult ability. The total number of fruits that can be grown at one time, by one kindred are equal the user permanent occult rating x5. This number is increased on a one for one basis by the following abilities: agriculture, botany, and gardening. The fruit is in season for approximately two to four months, depending on the base species, IE, Satsuma Mandarins from mid-November, where as a Minneola Tangelos from April to June. Per this formula, any character limited to 5 of any one ability (any player character)  would be capped at 40 fruits per season / year, per PC.

If refrigerated, especially in a cold room with the correct type and mixture of air / lack of air, the fruit can remain reasonably fresh for up to three months. Otherwise the fruit only has a three week period of freshness. If processed into a frozen crimson-tangerine like ‘orange juice’ concentrate, and then frozen, the fruit can stay consumable at most one year if properly stored.