Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Many Ravnos fortunate enough to have survived the Week of Nightmares owe their survival to their capacity to fight, rather than their mastery of chicanery or dharma riddles. Placing faith in tools over trickery, they’ve nonetheless managed to blend their illusory arts with their martial skill in unexpected ways.

Mechanics:
Expend 1 point of Blood and use a simple action to enhance a weapon you are using with a potent and potentially harmful illusion. You may select a Special Weapon Capability of the appropriate type for your weapon from either the melee or ranged Special Weapon Capability list (Dark Epics: pg 82). This Capability can be applied even if it would normally break the mundane rules for that Capability. For example, using Illusory Augmentation, you can grant the Spray Capability to a ranged weapon with an Ammo Capacity of 6. For the next hour, your weapon has the Capability granted by Illusory Augmentation in addition to its normal Capabilities. As with other Chimerstry powers, this illusion may be pierced by use of Auspex or similar powers. If the illusion is pierced, you cannot utilize the Special Weapon Capability against the individual who successfully sees through your illusion. As this power is illusory, it has no effect against a nonliving target. The weapon retains the illusory Capability as long as it remains in your hands; should you be disarmed or attempt to hand it to another, the effects immediately cease. No weapon can benefit from more than a single application of this power. Should you activate this power while it is already active, the previous application ends. As a reminder, you cannot benefit from the same Capability twice, regardless of the source. Using this power in combination with your attacks does not enable the use of the merit Clear Sighted.

Acutally Requirment is ANY Blood Magic at a 5

The mystical crescent moon mark of the Black Hand has many legends and myths associated to it.  Some claim the Seraphim can use the mark to affect it agents; speaking to them or even casting their powers upon them.  Some rumors even claim that through the mystical crescent moon tattoo the Seraphim can call to them any who bear it or slay any they desired.  While these are many of the legends among the Black Hand; this Combination discipline does call upon the mystical nature of the Black Hand tattoo.

System: Those who know of this combination discipline can bestow upon those who undergo it with some of their mystical might.  The recipient of the Combination Discipline must possess no Blood Magic themselves in order to benefit from it, and obviously most also be members of the Black Hand (as one of the key components of the ritual requires the crescent moon tattoo).  Once a member of the chosen is selected to undergo this power the magi performs the Japanese art of Irezumi (the tattooing art of placing ink underneath the skin).  This painful form of tattooing requires an hour to perform and the recipient must perform a Self-Control/Instinct challenge at difficulty of 4 to endure the pain (failure means the power fails).  The Magi mixes his own blood with the ink he inserts into the crescent moon tattoo.  Once finished the magi may then cast one of his blood magic powers (not path, just one level of it, and only one at a time) upon the recipient.  This spell remains dormant in the recipients tattoo until he decides to activate it.  Once used, the recipient would need to undergo the process again to have another use of the spell or an entirely new one.

Imprint"
Animalism 3 + Auspex 2
Cost - 7 exp

The user's beast leaves it's imprint on it's willing target's aura. A successful Aura Perception challenge on the target's aura will reveal a slight 'taint' from the user's aura/beast, showing the 'imprint'. This is something visibly noticeable only to successful Aura Perception challenges on the target, like that of faint diablerie veins. This is not seen deadly or threatening, like that of  fresh veins or infernal taint. This 'imprint' reads as Kindred/Canite, since it can only be inflicted by one who has a beast. The target must willingly accept the mark on their aura.

Once marked, the user will be able to sense the 'imprinted ones' if they are within the same chronicle's limits as she is currently within.

If the target is within bounds of the same area (city or chronicle, up to ST discretion), the user can sense the physical and emotional well being of their beast.
--The user will know if their beast is close to frenzy; if their target falls into torpor, or is staked; or if the target is in excessive danger/stress that riles their beast.

If the target is not within the same area (city or chronicle, up to ST discretion) the user will ONLY sense if they have been staked, fell into torpor, or have met final death.

In either case, she will feel the same 'loss of attachment' like that of a weakened blood bond breaking, or a weak viniculium rating dissipating.
--This power does NOT tell the user the details of what happened, but that something did happen to her target.
--This does not give the effects of blood bond or of viniculium to either party. This serves as 'the user has a feeling of the aura of the state of being of the 'imprinted' target, knowing the target is well and not in danger'.

The user may mark the number of targets equivalent to their dots of Generation. The user and target may remove this fixed mark by expending a permanent willpower to sever the tie. The permanent willpower spent may be purchased back at a later time. Otherwise, the mark is considered permanently affixed to the target's aura.

The target may only be 'imprinted' upon by 1 user at a time. To gain the mark of another, the target must break their previous bond.

 Borrowing on the supernatural compulsion instilled by Presence, this technique urges your target to act on their first impulse with utmost haste. In many cases this will simply accompany a Summon challenge, though its uses could be much more complex. The requirement to use this technique is similar to Summon, with a close personal connection required to use it over any distance. A suggestive conversation or motivational speech of significant length should do the trick. The user must then spend one Willpower and defeat his target in a Social challenge retesting with Subterfuge. If successful, the target will appear to act quite hastily for the remainder of the scene. The target is actually only able to act on his base impulse, forgoing any careful planning or strategic maneuvering. An ST or narrator should direct the target to think of the first action that comes to mind in the current scenario and carry out that action as quickly as possible. The target may still spend Willpower to act normally for one turn, though the compulsion will quickly override their ability to function with any forethought. Mechanics-wise, this power should impart the negative traits Shortsighted and Impatient.