Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

Must have Obtenebration in clan

Whenever you teach Obten to another, you spend one permanent WP. Whoever you teach Obten to, or any Obten combo, you may spend a WP to see through their Obten and be unaffected by their Obten for the scene. You may also grant others protection from your own Obten by beating them in a social challenge (occult). Each person you target this way may see through your Obtenebration as if they themselves created it. You may only target one person per permanent WP a night.

The Toreador clan are famous social masters and engineers.  The discipline they are most associated with is their true mastery of Presence.  The Toreador clan has developed this combination discipline to reinforce that belief.  By combining their arts of extending their senses and mixing it with their presence they appear to others as some of the most beautiful and graceful kindred on the planet.
System:  The Toreador spends 1 willpower trait to activate this power for the next immediate Social challenge.  During that time the Toreador may add their Presence discipline rating in Bonus Traits to that Social challenge.  This combination Discipline may only be learned by members of the Toreador Clan.

“Another Elysium, another boring Primogen Council meeting. The same thing, gathering after gathering. Primogen Elsabran scoffs at this, Primogen Igmond balks at that. I wonder if this is what my sire was on about with “Eternal damnation can manifest most deceivingly” all those years ago, because this is both eternal and I do indeed feel damned. I begin to doodle behind the cover of my legal pad when I hear Primogen Uktus shout “Break into your haven? I know NOTHING of the sort”, standard stuff really from Uktus when all of a sudden I start hearing gasps. I slowly raise my head over the vertical legal pad and notice that Uktus is paralyzed, as if he were having a heart attack. Blood leaked down his face, pouring out from his eyes, ears, nose and mouth, so hot that steam was furiously coming from it as it exited his body. “Uktus, what is this?! What is going on here?!” screamed Elsabran. Uktus struggled to speak “I…don’t…know…” but as the words finished leaving his mouth, the rush of blood intensified and grew even hotter, causing boils to form all over Uktus. Some of the other Primogen, the smart ones, immediately fled, while Igmond moved to help Uktus. Uktus gurgled “Igmond…help me! I do not deserve this!” and with that last sentence, the blood now poured out from him like a hose. Igmond got it in the face and recoiled back, the heat melting his skin. I lowered my head back down behind my legal pad and as the blood hit it I could feel the leather melting in my hands before snapping my arms to my side. After a minute, silence fell. I got up from under the table and saw Elsabran tending to Igmond, whose face had been melted right off. Uktus, or at least what remained of Uktus, was a pile of steaming blood and ash.”

Mechanics: The Malkavian targets another character within line of sight and engages in a contested Social challenge against, Retest Subterfuge. If successful then for the remainder of the scene/hour, anytime the target character tells a lie, their blood begins to furiously boil. Kindred take 2 Aggravated Damage and lose 2 Blood Points each time they say anything that they do not believe to be true. Other creatures take 2 Aggravated Damage.

The Umbra is a realm that reflects one's innermost feelings and offers a chance for those that make journeys there to connect with their true nature. It is a realm of the essence of who and what people and things are.  Separating the Umbra from the physical Material is the great barrier of the Gauntlet.  Negotiating the Gauntlet is a task that supernatural creatures often approach differently from one another. To a werewolf, their natural spiritual connection provides them with a convenient means of "stepping sideways". A blood mage might prepare a ritual sacrificing another living being to force the Gauntlet to part. The wielder of this power seeks to make use of the connection that exists between Earth Meld and the Gauntlet and to then navigate into the spiritual realm with the cosmological orienteering of Psychic Projection.

To activate, the kindred first spends a blood Trait to activate an Earth Meld power and inters themselves as is appropriate. This will render the user's body into a spiritual state that exists within the confines of the Gauntlet. The kindred then, while in a dream-like state, needs to acknowledge and accept their own Nature spending two Willpower Traits and making a Static Mental Challenge (Occult or Cosmology retest) against the local rating of the Gauntlet.  This test is reflective of the kindred's ability to properly utilize the tools of Psychic Projection to read spiritual signs, orient themselves and move in the proper "direction" when it comes to finding the Umbra. Success results in the kindred emerging from their interment on the corresponding other side of the Gauntlet in the Umbra just as they would have in the Material.  If the test is failed the wielder makes two simple tests. A win or tie on either and the kindred simply emerges back in the Material where they left. A loss on both simple tests and the fate of the kindred is left to Storyteller discretion with an unexpected detour being the most likely outcome. To return, the kindred must repeat the same process and will emerge in a corresponding place in the Material. This power does not work for areas of the Umbra that do not have a corresponding area in the Material.

In order for this power to be learned, the kindred in question must come to an understanding and acceptance of what their Nature is. The Umbra is the realm of the fundamental nature of things. Finding it first requires finding one's own nature. While this may sound simple, such insight often comes with knowledge or trials that are difficult to confront and should be roleplayed appropriately.