Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Mayhem Motorcycle Mastery

XP Cost: 9xp

Disciplines required - Visceratika 3, Potence 3

Write up: Mayhem’s Motorcycle Mastery is the ultimate tool for the traveling member of Mayhem Motorcycle Club. With this combination discipline, the user of this power sinks into stone with their motorcycle, able to sleep mystically undisturbed within the stone. You must be touching stone or concrete and your motorcycle to use this power. You immediately begin sinking mystically into the stone or concrete, taking with you all of your possessions. Using this power protects you completely from daylight and allows you to sleep undisturbed. You remain unaware of what transpires around you, and indeed, you are not fully part of the material world at all. While in this state, you cannot move other than to exit the object at will. The only exception to this is if you have Visceratika level 5 - Flow within the mountain, in which case you then may move freely within the stone if you activate that power. While bonded with the stone, you and your motorcycle remain in a semi-tangible state, partially diffused into spirit by your connection to the stone. Thus, you cannot be readily detected either physically or with spirits. If the stone you are fused with is disrupted in any fashion, you immediately return to physical form and complete wakefulness, shooting out of the stone.  You must spend two blood and take a full round of concentration to activate Mayhem Motorcycle Mastery. This combination discipline is for any patched Anarch member of Mayhem Motorcyle Club that possesses the prerequisites to learn the discipline.

The healing of the Salubri bloodlines is spoken of in mystified whispers and is rumored to have the capacity to remove the scars left by even the harshest treatment of Kindred society.
Physical touch is required either near the wound or simply in friendship, but it must be consensual on the part of both the Healer and Patient or the discipline fails.

Each Blood Trait that the Healer expends "heals"* one point of a Physical or appearance related Social or Supernatural Negative Trait or Flaw.

Alternatively, the Salubri can provide counseling for a minimum of 10 minutes before spending two Blood Traits and making a Static Social Challenge with a difficulty of the subject’s base Mental Traits.

Success removes two points of Mental, Social, or Supernatural Negative Trait or Flaw.  For each additional 5 minutes of counseling and Blood point spent, another point of Flaws or Traits may be removed.

This cannot be used to remove clan/tribe/kith etc. mandated Flaws or Negative traits, but it can be used to suppress them for a night.

*The narrative of the power provides a story reason for characters to justify buying off Negative Traits or Flaws, it doesn't mean there is no cost to removing them.

Description:
Your very existence was a spectacle, you were the main actor in every scene, and your final death will be an event remembered by ages in your last words. The curtain is sliding, and the spotlight closes over you. Nobody will take your moment. The stage is all and only yours, and no one can interrupt your final monologue.
System:
In the moment of the character's final death scene you can perform a speech that cannot be interrupted. All actions are paused, and neither you nor others can take actions to prevent or accelerate the character's death while you are speaking. This speech cannot be used to activate any other powers or effects, and no power (not even Quietus) can be used to prevent the character from doing his final discourse. The Storyteller must be creative to provide a scene where the death speech can be delivered, no matter the situation. After your final speech, your character is definitely destroyed.

Mensageiros do Walker
Requisitos: Animalismo 2, Dominação 3, Auspícios 4
Custo: 10 XPs
Este poder cria, para o vampiro, um mensageiro seguro (e apenas um) capaz de entregar uma mensagem breve e retornar com a resposta igualmente breve. A mensagem pode ser complexa, porém não extensa, pois usa-se o animal como mero meio de transporte para a mensagem. O animal mensageiro carrega em sua mente a mensagem, a qual somente o Destinatário será capaz de receber. O contato visual entre o Remetente e o Mensageiro e depois, entre o Mensageiro e o Destinatário é obrigatório para que a mensagem seja “gravada” e, posteriormente, “entregue”. O mesmo é verdadeiro para a resposta, caso tenha alguma.

Sistema: O vampiro gasta um ponto de Força de Vontade temporário, fitando os olhos do animal e dá um ponto de seu sangue para ele. Ao dar a vitae e gastar o sua Força de Vontade temporário, o vampiro vincula o animal à força mística do sangue vampírico e torna-o um Mensageiro livre dos grilhões da servitude de um carniçal, porém preso ao dever de entregar a mensagem confiada diretamente e somente à pessoa indicada, da melhor maneira possível e o mais rápido que puder, desde que não se coloque em risco.
Para incutir a mensagem na mente do Mensageiro, o Remetente deve ter contato visual e criar um vínculo empático com o animal (pelo menos 30 segundos olhando fixamente os olhos do Mensageiro). Após esse tempo, o Remetente dita sua mensagem, de forma clara. A mensagem, como dito acima, pode ser complexa, com termos técnicos e intrincada, porém não pode ser extensa (a capacidade dos animais referente a memorizar coisas, para os efeitos dessa Metadisciplina, é extremamente baixa), limitada a, no máximo, duas frases curtas a médias, por exemplo “o chip estará fixado no verso do tampo da mesa 4 da cafeteria de toldo verde da Avenida X. Não deixe o homem de chapéu branco saber disso” ou “encontre-me no Elísio às 20:00. Leve o iPhone azul e venha sozinho”. Depois, o Remetente deve fazer uma imagem mental clara do Destinatário, o caminho para chegar a ele e o local onde conhecidamente o Destinatário se encontra. Após isso, o Mensageiro partirá imediatamente de forma direta e o mais rápido que puder até o Destinatário. O animal deve conhecer minimamente a região de abrangência (limitado à Comarca ou área de jogo da Crônica/House) de onde o vampiro esteja, de modo que não seja um problema para o Mensageiro ir até onde o Destinatário comumente frequenta. Ao encontrar o Destinatário, o Mensageiro se aproximará dele e fará o que for preciso para chamar-lhe a atenção. Ao fixar contato olho-no-olho, a mensagem é jogada em sua mente, EXATAMENTE como ditada pelo Remetente, cuja voz ecoará na mente do Destinatário. O Mensageiro não entenderá nada da mensagem, não será capaz de repeti-la, não saberá tirar dúvida alguma e a esquecerá assim que a entregar, ficando com sua mente novamente vazia e voltando para o Remetente. Qualquer frase imediata à entrega da mensagem será considerada resposta e o Mensageiro a levará de volta ao Remetente.
Segurança: o link mental será feito apenas e tão somente entre o Remetente e o Mensageiro e entre o Mensageiro e o Destinatário, sendo verdadeiro para a resposta em seu caminho inverso. Qualquer tentativa de invasão mental para “roubar” a mensagem do Mensageiro fará com a mensagem seja apagada e esquecida pelo Mensageiro. Ainda, se este perceber que está sendo rastreado ou perseguido, a mensagem também será apagada e esquecida, devido ao instinto de sobrevivência e autopreservação que os animais possuem. Obviamente, se o animal for morto, a mensagem se perderá com ele.
Limitação: Apenas um Mensageiro pode ser criado para cada Remetente. É possível criar Mensageiros para outros vampiros, desde que se tenha 1 ponto de sangue para vincular o animal com o vampiro para quem o Mensageiro será doado, sempre no limite de apenas um por vampiro. Se um segundo Mensageiro for criado o primeiro perde o vínculo automaticamente. O Mensageiro não pode ser transformado em carniçal, sem que perca completamente sua habilidade e se torne um carniçal comum. Em qualquer situação, o Mensageiro não retornará de imediato ao Remetente; ele ficará vagando como um animal comum de sua espécie e, somente na noite seguinte, voltará ao Remetente. Noites seguidas de rastreio ou perseguição fará com que o Mensageiro perca suas habilidades e volte a ser um animal comum já na terceira noite. Não há um aviso místico ao Remetente quando o Mensageiro perde suas habilidades ou morre (apenas há a ciência de uma mensagem não entregue, seja pela recusa em recebê-la pelo Destinatário ou quando este não for encontrado). O Mensageiro também perde suas habilidades se um segundo Mensageiro for criado para o mesmo Remetente.

Walker’s Messengers
Requirement: Animalism 2, Dominate 3, Auspex 4
Cost: 10 XPs

This power allows a vampire to create a safe messenger (and one single Messenger) from a regular animal of his or hers choice, who is able to deliver a quick message and return with an answer equally quick. The message itself can be complex, although not an extensive one, because the animal is used as a simple vessel to the message. The Messenger is loaded with the message inside its mind, that only the Destinatary is able to receive. Eye contact is required to “input” the message and, thereafter, “delivered”. The same is true for the answer, if that’s the case.

System: The vampire spends one temporary Willpower point, gazing the animal into its eyes and give it one blood point. While giving the vitae and spending the temporary Willpower point, a bond between the vampire and the animal is created due the mystic force of vampire blood and turns the animal into a Messenger, free from the grisp of a ghoul servitude, but obliged to the duty to deliver the message entrusted to him by the Sender, by any means, right and direct to the Destinatary, since there’s no danger for his life.

To input a message into the Messenger’s mind, the Sender must lock eye contact and create an empathetic bond with the animal (about 30 seconds gazing the Messenger eyes). After this time, the Sender says his message aloud, cristal clear. The message, as mentioned before, can be complex, with technical terms and complicated, but cannot be extensive (an animal’s memory capacity, for this power effects, is really short), limited to, at maximum, 2 short to medium sentences. For example, “the chip can be found at the bottom of the table number 4, at the green solace coffee shop at the X Avenue. Do not let the man with white hat know this” or “meet me at 8 PM at the Elysium. Bring the blue iPhone with you and come alone”. After that, the Sender must think of a clear image of the Destinatary and trace a clear path to the place where the Destinatary can be found or lives. Then the animal will leave, right and direct to the Destinatary, the fast as it could, following the given path. The Messenger must have a minimal knowledge of its deliver area, limited to the city where the vampire who created it lives or the House has jurisdiction, that shall not be a big issue to the Messenger to find the Destinatary and deliver the message. When the Destinatary is found, the animal will do anything possible to call the Destinatary’s attention, until eye contact is made. Once eye contact is made, the message is sent: the Destinatary literally hears the Sender’s voice and the message is echoed into the Destinatary’s mind. The Messenger will not understand nothing of the message and it is given EXACTLY as told by the Sender when it was “recorded” before. Once delivered, the Messenger will forget the message that cannot be retrieved by any means. The Messenger cannot understand the message (it only repeats the sentences, like a recording tape) and any question done by the Destinatary cannot be answered, as the animal will not understand the details of the message. Additionally, anything told by the Destinatary soon after the message is delivered, the Messenger will record and send back to the Sender as an answer.

Security: the mental link will be made only between the Sender and the Messenger and then with the Messenger and the Destinatary, being true the way back if an answer is provided to the Sender. Any attempt to “steal” the message will result in loss of the message by the Messenger. The same will happen if the Messenger perceives it is being pursued or tracked, due the survival and self-preservation instinct possessed by any animal. Obviously, if the animal is killed, the message is lost.

Limitations: One, and only one Messenger is allowed to each Sender. It is possible to create a Messenger for another vampire. A blood point must be given to the vampire who shall create the Messenger and all the remaining procedure shall be done as normal. The Messenger cannot be turned into a ghoul; if a blood of any vampire (including its creator’s) is given to the Messenger, it will be turned into a common ghoul and its ability to deliver messages will be lost. In any situation, the Messenger will not return immediatelly to the Sender; it will be roaming and will return only next night. It will do that “security protocol” whenever aware of being pursued ou tracked until the third night, when the Messenger loses its ability due the fear of being hunted and its survival instinct is triggered, and its life is saved. There’s not a mystical warning to the Sender if the Messenger is killed or if its ability is lost: the Sender will notice that he or she no longer has a Messenger when, by the third night, the animal doesn’t come back. The only thing that the Sender shall know is when the Messenger couldn’t deliver the message, be it by Destinatary’s refusal to receive it, or if the message couldn’t be delivered by another way, such as the Messenger didn’t find the Destinatary. Due the limitation of only one Messenger, if a second one is created for the same Sender, the first Messenger created loses its ability, as its bond with the Sender.