Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

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.

A combination discipline for master craftspersons.

This discipline allows the kindred to place a piece of themselves into select items, allowing the crafter to gain additional bonuses when wielding the item. Kindred with less than 50 cumulative points of crafts find themselves unable to learn this discipline. No other disciplines or abilities may be learned or taught while the item is being constructed. The crafter is down one trait on the resolution of all challenges while the item is being constructed, to indicate the desire to focus on this one task. A temporary willpower may be burned to abandon the construction of the particular item, permanent exp spent is expended.

MET Rules: Crafter expends three permanent experience points, along with the necessary time to complete the item. The maker of the item must deposit one trait of their vitae, one per night, for three nights into the component ingredients. The vitae is destroyed and not usable for other purposes. When the item is complete, it will grant the maker extra bonuses above and beyond what is otherwise possible. The craft's level of the item is 6. Additionally, the crafter can choose 2 areas of a weapon to improve, Additional special ability or remove of a negative trait or additional trait above and beyond stated craft rules, or other features approved by the Storyteller (such as an extra health level for armor). This discipline can not be used to directly increase damage, but may be used to add a special ability which may increase damage.

This technique was once long ago very common among the Tzimisce clan. Some of the clan
argue it is a simple alteration and mastery of the power of bonecraft and nothing more. However
the truth is that it requires the bestial powers of Potence to complete its attack. The Tzimisce
strikes his target and forces the victim’s own body to turn against him. By focusing on his shape
mastery abilities, the Tzimisce can cause the victim’s own rib bones to bend warp and pierce his
heart. The result of such an attack is a shower mess of blood as it explodes from the victim. No
mortal can survive such an attack and few Cainites can claim to have survived it either.

System: Spend one blood trait and engage your target in a Physical challenge retested with
Crafts: Body. If you succeed, you must throw two simple challenged you must win or tie as per
staking; if you do the victim’s rib bones pierce his own heart. The resulting attack causes the
victim to immediately lose half his current blood pool as it explodes out of his body.

Taken from Bonecraft in TT vampire the Masquerade revised

Hellspawn (Presence 1, Obfuscate 1, Dark Thaumaturgy 1), 4 xp

By drawing on ancient techniques and ancestral powers of the Baali, the infernalist empowers their blood in defiance of the Curse of Caine. This power of the blood was only created after the study of demonic Laham and Baali with the blood of demons combining with their already tainted vitae. In the end, the meta-discipline allows an infernalist to call on the legacy of the celestial blood studied by the Baali to empower their own to produce conventional children in addition to vampiric childer.

System: This character is capable of having biological children with humans, as well as vampires with the appropriate ability to have biological children (thin-bloods, certain infernal pacts, etc.). Biological children produced this way are dhampirs (from Time of Thin Blood).