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Practitioners of the Path of the Levinbolt tend to cause a good deal of static electricity around them, even when not engaging in combat. Sometimes this plays havoc with cellular service, causes lights to flicker without reason, and computers to experience power surges in their presence. | Practitioners of the Path of the Levinbolt tend to cause a good deal of static electricity around them, even when not engaging in combat. Sometimes this plays havoc with cellular service, causes lights to flicker without reason, and computers to experience power surges in their presence. | ||
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| + | For the purpose of balancing, the ST can decide to count them as: | ||
| + | *Additional powers of Blood Sorcery, substituting in the dice pools or ratings the name of the Path for Blood Sorcery. | ||
| + | *Considering Blood Sorcery powers from the core as the “Path of Blood” and decide which Path is in-clan while the others remain out-clan each like a standalone Discipline. | ||
| + | *In-clan Disciplines for those clans with Blood Sorcery (not recommended). | ||
| + | *Behind a 4-dot merit that adds it as in-clan Discipline. | ||
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| + | Originally from [https://drive.google.com/file/d/18jX8wwcjyTBNe-CMFrNIxfLN-M2-tXFc/view Paths of Blood Sorcery] | ||
|limits= | |limits= | ||
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|masqthreat=Mid-High | |masqthreat=Mid-High | ||
Harnessing the power of the electricity with bare hands is a clear Masquerade violation. | Harnessing the power of the electricity with bare hands is a clear Masquerade violation. | ||
| − | |resonance=Sanguine. Scientists, engineers, technicians. | + | |resonance=Sanguine. Scientists, engineers, technicians. |
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|level1-1=Flicker | |level1-1=Flicker | ||
|prereq1-1= | |prereq1-1= | ||
| − | |description1-1=The vampire draws in ambient charge from around her; static electricity and ambient electricity in the air, or actual electricity from nearby outlets and devices. The effect is not obvious, only visible in the snap of static electricity from her fingertips This charge can be used to cause glitches in machinery and other devices or to directly fry it. | + | |description1-1=The vampire draws in ambient charge from around her; static electricity and ambient electricity in the air, or actual electricity from nearby outlets and devices. The effect is not obvious, only visible in the snap of static electricity from her fingertips. This charge can be used to cause glitches in machinery and other devices or to directly fry it. |
|cost1-1=Free | |cost1-1=Free | ||
|dicepool1-1=Intelligence + Levinbolt | |dicepool1-1=Intelligence + Levinbolt | ||
| − | |system1-1=No additional test is needed to create the glitches. Any use of a device or machinery within a 10 meter radius of the vampire | + | |system1-1=No additional test is needed to create the glitches. Any use of a device or machinery within a 10 meter radius of the vampire removes dice equal to half the Levinbolt rating rounded up, as the electricity causes things like systems slowdown, glitches etc. The vampire can attempt to 'discharge' the electricity into a machine, frying it. This requires a roll of Intelligence + Levinbolt vs a Difficulty determined by the Storyteller based on the machine's size, surge protection and other factors, being 2 a regular laptop. In case of portable electronics, the Storyteller can opt to make the roll against the Resolve + Stamina of the target. If successful, the electricity arcs from the caster's fingertips, frying the machine. |
|duration1-1=One scene or until deactivation. | |duration1-1=One scene or until deactivation. | ||
|level1-2=Frictionless Mobility | |level1-2=Frictionless Mobility | ||
|prereq1-2= | |prereq1-2= | ||
| − | |description1-2=The vampire forces the electrons of the outer layers of her body or clothing to avoid reacting with others. This lack of interactions eliminates friction for the vampire, allowing her to slide across surfaces as if having rollers or treat a steep slope as her personal slide. This power does not prevent damage from direct falls | + | |description1-2=The vampire forces the electrons of the outer layers of her body or clothing to avoid reacting with others, due to this, nearly imperceptible sparks travel her body at intervals. This lack of interactions eliminates friction for the vampire, allowing her to slide across surfaces as if having rollers or treat a steep slope as her personal slide. This power does not prevent damage from direct falls but depending on the angle it can redirect it to a slide, maintaining the momentum and potentially bumping into things. |
|cost1-2=Free | |cost1-2=Free | ||
|dicepool1-2=Wits + Survival or Dexterity + Athletics | |dicepool1-2=Wits + Survival or Dexterity + Athletics | ||
| − | |system1-2=If the vampire has time to prepare, no roll is required. As a reaction, such as during a sudden grapple, activating the power requires a Wits + Survival roll at Difficulty 3. As long as the power is in effect, the vampire becomes slippery. Pushing or grappling her becomes impossible, but regular Brawl attacks still | + | |system1-2=If the vampire has time to prepare, no roll is required. As a reaction, such as during a sudden grapple, activating the power requires a Wits + Survival roll at Difficulty 3. As long as the power is in effect, the vampire becomes slippery. Pushing or grappling her becomes impossible, but regular Brawl attacks still work. Additionally, maintaining the balance while this is power active becomes tricky. The character needs to make a Dexterity + Athletics roll vs a Difficulty dictated by the Storyteller, to avoid stumbling and falling. On a Win, the vampire is able to move with grace and ease until the surface she’s moving changes significantly. On a failed roll, she falls and continues moving in the direction she was trying to move. |
|duration1-2=One scene or until deactivation. | |duration1-2=One scene or until deactivation. | ||
|level1-3= | |level1-3= | ||
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|amalgam1=Electroception | |amalgam1=Electroception | ||
|amalgam1disc=Auspex 1 | |amalgam1disc=Auspex 1 | ||
| − | |amalgam1desc=The vampire detects the electric fields generated by living beings and modern technology or machinery. This | + | |amalgam1desc=The vampire detects the electric fields generated by living beings and modern technology or machinery. This allows them to “see” these fields even through walls, effectively adding a new sense to her arsenal. |
|amalgam1cost=Free | |amalgam1cost=Free | ||
|amalgam1pool=Resolve + Levinbolt | |amalgam1pool=Resolve + Levinbolt | ||
| − | |amalgam1system=No roll is required to activate Electroreception. While active, the user senses electrical fields related to electronic devices and living beings as part of their standard perception tests. This power also allows the vampire to perceive objects, animals and people otherwise hidden from the naked eye (such as behind a wall or in supernatural darkness). Anything that has a perceptible electrical charge may be found with this power, at Storyteller’s discretion, including radio waves and other electrical signals. In the modern nights, radio and similar signals saturate the city. Discerning between the multiple signals requires a Resolve + Levinbolt vs a Difficulty decided by the specific signal. Deciphering walkie talkie or radio signals is usually rolled vs Difficulty 2, while cell phone communication is rolled at 3. Landline or more encrypted methods involve higher Difficulties at Storyteller discretion. | + | |amalgam1system=No roll is required to activate Electroreception. While active, the user senses electrical fields related to electronic devices and living beings as part of their standard perception tests. This power also allows the vampire to perceive objects, animals and people otherwise hidden from the naked eye (such as behind a wall or in supernatural darkness) as long as they have electricity. Anything that has a perceptible electrical charge may be found with this power, at Storyteller’s discretion, including radio waves and other electrical signals. In the modern nights, radio and similar signals saturate the city. Discerning between the multiple signals requires a Resolve + Levinbolt vs a Difficulty decided by the specific signal. Deciphering walkie talkie or radio signals is usually rolled vs Difficulty 2, while cell phone communication is rolled at 3. Landline or more encrypted methods involve higher Difficulties at Storyteller discretion. |
|amalgam1duration=Passive | |amalgam1duration=Passive | ||
|level2-1=Synapsis Enhancement | |level2-1=Synapsis Enhancement | ||
|prereq2-1= | |prereq2-1= | ||
| − | |description2-1=The vampire draws in ambient charge from around her, and immediately applies that charge in an unorthodox way: channelling it into her mental faculties, essentially giving herself medical electrical brain stimulation | + | |description2-1=Widely used for those that consider themselves Technomancers, this power uses the dead brain as an auxiliary computer. The vampire draws in ambient charge from around her, and immediately applies that charge in an unorthodox way: channelling it into her mental faculties, essentially giving herself medical electrical brain stimulation and increasing cognitive function. |
|cost2-1=One Rouse Check | |cost2-1=One Rouse Check | ||
|dicepool2-1= | |dicepool2-1= | ||
|system2-1=Add your Levinbolt rating to all Academics, Science and Technology rolls for the Scene; other Skills can be included at Storyteller's discretion when narratively appropriate. | |system2-1=Add your Levinbolt rating to all Academics, Science and Technology rolls for the Scene; other Skills can be included at Storyteller's discretion when narratively appropriate. | ||
|duration2-1=One scene or until dismissed. | |duration2-1=One scene or until dismissed. | ||
| − | |level2-2= | + | |level2-2= |
|prereq2-2= | |prereq2-2= | ||
| − | |description2-2= | + | |description2-2= |
| − | + | |cost2-2= | |
| − | |cost2-2= | ||
|dicepool2-2= | |dicepool2-2= | ||
| − | |system2-2= | + | |system2-2= |
| − | |duration2-2= | + | |duration2-2= |
|level2-3= | |level2-3= | ||
|prereq2-3= | |prereq2-3= | ||
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|system2-3= | |system2-3= | ||
|duration2-3= | |duration2-3= | ||
| − | |amalgam2= | + | |amalgam2=Electrical Stimulation |
| − | |amalgam2disc= | + | |amalgam2disc=Fortitude 1 |
| − | |amalgam2desc= | + | |amalgam2desc=The vampire draws in ambient charge from around her, and immediately applies that charge to attempt normal body functioning under extreme circumstances, like making broken muscles work as intended or to ready one's mind after mental defeat, effectively negating the effects of the impairment of choice. |
| − | |amalgam2cost= | + | |amalgam2cost=One Rouse Check |
|amalgam2pool= | |amalgam2pool= | ||
| − | |amalgam2system= | + | |amalgam2system=No roll is needed to activate this power. When activated, the vampire chooses its Willpower or Health tracker, ignoring the penalties from impairment for the duration. This power does not prevent penalties from Crippling Injuries. Only one instance from this power can be active at any time. |
| − | |amalgam2duration= | + | |amalgam2duration=One Scene |
|level3-1=Discharge | |level3-1=Discharge | ||
|prereq3-1= | |prereq3-1= | ||
| − | |description3-1=Rather than drawing in ambient charge from around the area; this time the effect is much more pronounced, as their body takes on a deep blue hue as energy arcs across them, making this an obvious breach of the Masquerade. The vampire immediately discharges this as a burst of electricity from their hands, either in the form of an arc of blue lightning from their fingertips, or a full-body discharge of deep blue electricity. Upon impact, the muscles of the target stiffen up, making hard to move. | + | |description3-1=Rather than drawing in ambient charge from around the area; this time the effect is much more pronounced, as their body takes on a deep blue hue as energy arcs across them, making this an obvious breach of the Masquerade. The vampire immediately discharges this as a burst of electricity from their hands, either in the form of an arc of blue lightning from their fingertips, or a full-body discharge of deep blue electricity. Upon impact, the muscles of the target stiffen up, making it hard to move. |
|cost3-1=One Rouse Check | |cost3-1=One Rouse Check | ||
|dicepool3-1=Intelligence + Levinbolt vs Dexterity + Athletics or Strength + Stamina. | |dicepool3-1=Intelligence + Levinbolt vs Dexterity + Athletics or Strength + Stamina. | ||
| − | |system3-1= | + | |system3-1=Channelling the raw energy of electricity involves an Intelligence + Levinbolt attack roll (which can be dodged like any ranged attack) with +2 to damage bonus. This causes the crippling injury stunned for a turn and causes Aggravated Health damage to mortals and un-halved Superficial to Kindred. Alternatively, if the character is being touched by the target (such as in a Grapple) this becomes a full -body discharge, resisted by the target's Strength + Stamina. A mortal who takes even one point of damage collapses unconscious. It is possible to use this power on humans in a non -lethal way, removing the damage but not the unconsciousness. |
|duration3-1= One use | |duration3-1= One use | ||
|level3-2=ElectroMagnetic Cover | |level3-2=ElectroMagnetic Cover | ||
|prereq3-2= | |prereq3-2= | ||
| − | |description3-2= | + | |description3-2=Channelling the electricity produced by her undead body as well as the ambient charge with great precision, the vampire creates an electromagnetic field strong enough to stop bullets. |
|cost3-2=One Rouse Check | |cost3-2=One Rouse Check | ||
|dicepool3-2=Composure + Levinbolt | |dicepool3-2=Composure + Levinbolt | ||
| − | |system3-2=The vampire creates a vertical field of crackling electricity that has | + | |system3-2=The vampire creates a vertical, rectangular field of crackling electricity that has a maximum length in yards/meters equal to the Levinbolt dots of the user. The size and width of the field can be modulated once per turn to cover other teammates inside the range at the cost as risking more damage to it. The vampire can do nothing else except control the field and walk while this power is active. Anyone attempting a Ranged attack against targets protected by the field roll against Difficulty 1 and subtracts the margin to the field’s Health. The field has a Health equal to three times the Levinbolt dots of the user and receives damage like mortals. The user can opt to redirect the bullets trapped in the field to attack with a roll of Composure + Levinbolt, with a damage bonus equal to half its missing Health (round up). This attack has the effective range of a shotgun. Attempting such action makes the field collapse. |
| − | The user can opt to redirect the bullets trapped in the field to attack with a roll of Composure + Levinbolt, with half its missing | ||
|duration3-2=One scene or until collapse. | |duration3-2=One scene or until collapse. | ||
|level3-3= | |level3-3= | ||
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|level4-1=Eye of the Storm | |level4-1=Eye of the Storm | ||
|prereq4-1= | |prereq4-1= | ||
| − | |description4-1=The vampire draws in so much ambient charge that her body becomes the centre of a veritable electrical storm, with significant electrical charge enveloping her body. | + | |description4-1=The vampire draws in so much ambient charge that her body becomes the centre of a veritable electrical storm, with significant electrical charge enveloping her body and fluctuating constantly in blinding flashes of light. |
|cost4-1=Two Rouse Checks | |cost4-1=Two Rouse Checks | ||
|dicepool4-1=Intelligence + Levinbolt | |dicepool4-1=Intelligence + Levinbolt | ||
| − | |system4-1= | + | |system4-1=Anyone attempting to make a Ranged or Thrown attack against the caster suffers a penalty to their pool equal to the Levinbolt rating of the vampire. When fighting in Close Combat, the attacker suffers 3 Superficial Health Damage as the electricity reacts to the stimulus and 'lashes out' at the attacker. |
|duration4-1=One scene or until dismissed. | |duration4-1=One scene or until dismissed. | ||
|level4-2= | |level4-2= | ||
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|cost5-1=One Rouse Check | |cost5-1=One Rouse Check | ||
|dicepool5-1=Intelligence + Levinbolt vs Dexterity + Athletics or Strength + Stamina. | |dicepool5-1=Intelligence + Levinbolt vs Dexterity + Athletics or Strength + Stamina. | ||
| − | |system5-1=This power uses the same base system as Discharge, with increased damage. The lightning does Aggravated Health damage to mortals and vampires alike. If the target receives any point damage, the lightning discharges electricity around them. Anyone within three meter radius of it must make a Dexterity + Athletics roll vs Difficulty 3 to avoid the bouncing lightning. Failing the roll causes the | + | |system5-1=This power uses the same base system as Discharge, with increased damage. The lightning does Aggravated Health damage to mortals and vampires alike. If the target receives any point of damage, the lightning discharges electricity around them. Anyone within three-meter radius of it must make a Dexterity + Athletics roll vs Difficulty 3 to avoid the bouncing lightning. Failing the roll causes the Crippling Injury Stunned for a turn. A mortal who takes even one point of damage dies instantly. |
|duration5-1= One use | |duration5-1= One use | ||
|level5-2=Redirect The Lightning | |level5-2=Redirect The Lightning | ||
|prereq5-2= | |prereq5-2= | ||
| − | |description5-2= | + | |description5-2=Channelling the electricity of a nearby source, like electric lines or during a storm, the vampire can “call the lightning” to strike her enemies in a blinding flash. |
|cost5-2=Two Rouse Checks | |cost5-2=Two Rouse Checks | ||
|dicepool5-2=Resolve + Levinbolt | |dicepool5-2=Resolve + Levinbolt | ||
| − | |system5-2=Given the erratic nature of this power, the opponent makes no roll to dodge or defend. Roll Resolve + Levinbolt against Difficulty 1. When the lightning smashes, anyone within three meter radius of the striking point receives the | + | |system5-2=Given the erratic nature of this power, the opponent makes no roll to dodge or defend. Roll Resolve + Levinbolt against Difficulty 1 and Causes Aggravated Health damage to mortals and Superficial un-halved to Kindred equal to the margin. When the lightning smashes, anyone within three-meter radius of the striking point receives the Crippling Injury Stunned for a turn. This power can only be used once per scene. |
|duration5-2=One use. | |duration5-2=One use. | ||
|level5-3= | |level5-3= | ||
Latest revision as of 09:47, 19 October 2021
The lightning sparked across the room, hitting both floor and ceiling. “You seem to ignore why you’ve failed… again.” The target, a wooden totem, lied on top of a black pedestal, untouched by the electricity. “You’ve mastered the… liberation of the energy your body now produces, but you lack… the focus. I thought I told you to read that book.” The sorceress was sitting on chair, all clad in black and deep blue, reading something from a tablet while speaking. “But why would a book about Science help me? I mean no disrespect, but when I joined you, I thought I would have access to arcane tomes and deep secrets, not lessons about mundane and humane things. I seek eldritch horrors, knowledge about ancient things.” The neonate was fidgeting his hands, feeling the phantom sensation of the electricity on its undead body. “Underestimating the knowledge of the humans was one of many mistakes we made. We have much to learn from what they’ve discovered. Controlling the lightning requires knowledge of polar charges and interactions between them” The sorceress raised its sight from the tablet to the totem and extended one of her arms. A continuous stream of sparks emerged from her fingers, caressing and blackening the wood of the totem. Without interrupting the stream, she began to move her arm at random, the end of the stream still focused upon the totem. “It’s as simple as that. Negatives go to positives, boy. Now, go study.”
Nicknames: Path of Levinbolt, Electromancy
Lightning has long been considered the dominion of the gods, but has traditionally been out of reach of thaumaturges due to a lack of understanding of the principles of electricity. As a result, this Path remained relatively obscure until the birth of modern science and the efforts of John Blackwood. The ample supply of electricity in the late 19th century meant that thaumaturges no longer had to wait until a convenient storm to charge their powers, but could gather the required electricity in mere seconds to direct as they chose.
Practitioners of the Path of the Levinbolt tend to cause a good deal of static electricity around them, even when not engaging in combat. Sometimes this plays havoc with cellular service, causes lights to flicker without reason, and computers to experience power surges in their presence.
For the purpose of balancing, the ST can decide to count them as:
- Additional powers of Blood Sorcery, substituting in the dice pools or ratings the name of the Path for Blood Sorcery.
- Considering Blood Sorcery powers from the core as the “Path of Blood” and decide which Path is in-clan while the others remain out-clan each like a standalone Discipline.
- In-clan Disciplines for those clans with Blood Sorcery (not recommended).
- Behind a 4-dot merit that adds it as in-clan Discipline.
Originally from Paths of Blood Sorcery
Characteristics
- Type: Sorcery
- Masquerade Threat: Mid-High
Harnessing the power of the electricity with bare hands is a clear Masquerade violation.
- Blood Resonance: Sanguine. Scientists, engineers, technicians.
Level 1
Flicker
The vampire draws in ambient charge from around her; static electricity and ambient electricity in the air, or actual electricity from nearby outlets and devices. The effect is not obvious, only visible in the snap of static electricity from her fingertips. This charge can be used to cause glitches in machinery and other devices or to directly fry it.
- Cost: Free
- Dice Pool: Intelligence + Levinbolt
- System: No additional test is needed to create the glitches. Any use of a device or machinery within a 10 meter radius of the vampire removes dice equal to half the Levinbolt rating rounded up, as the electricity causes things like systems slowdown, glitches etc. The vampire can attempt to 'discharge' the electricity into a machine, frying it. This requires a roll of Intelligence + Levinbolt vs a Difficulty determined by the Storyteller based on the machine's size, surge protection and other factors, being 2 a regular laptop. In case of portable electronics, the Storyteller can opt to make the roll against the Resolve + Stamina of the target. If successful, the electricity arcs from the caster's fingertips, frying the machine.
- Duration: One scene or until deactivation.
Frictionless Mobility
The vampire forces the electrons of the outer layers of her body or clothing to avoid reacting with others, due to this, nearly imperceptible sparks travel her body at intervals. This lack of interactions eliminates friction for the vampire, allowing her to slide across surfaces as if having rollers or treat a steep slope as her personal slide. This power does not prevent damage from direct falls but depending on the angle it can redirect it to a slide, maintaining the momentum and potentially bumping into things.
- Cost: Free
- Dice Pool: Wits + Survival or Dexterity + Athletics
- System: If the vampire has time to prepare, no roll is required. As a reaction, such as during a sudden grapple, activating the power requires a Wits + Survival roll at Difficulty 3. As long as the power is in effect, the vampire becomes slippery. Pushing or grappling her becomes impossible, but regular Brawl attacks still work. Additionally, maintaining the balance while this is power active becomes tricky. The character needs to make a Dexterity + Athletics roll vs a Difficulty dictated by the Storyteller, to avoid stumbling and falling. On a Win, the vampire is able to move with grace and ease until the surface she’s moving changes significantly. On a failed roll, she falls and continues moving in the direction she was trying to move.
- Duration: One scene or until deactivation.
Electroception
- Amalgam: Auspex 1
The vampire detects the electric fields generated by living beings and modern technology or machinery. This allows them to “see” these fields even through walls, effectively adding a new sense to her arsenal.
- Cost: Free
- Dice Pool: Resolve + Levinbolt
- System: No roll is required to activate Electroreception. While active, the user senses electrical fields related to electronic devices and living beings as part of their standard perception tests. This power also allows the vampire to perceive objects, animals and people otherwise hidden from the naked eye (such as behind a wall or in supernatural darkness) as long as they have electricity. Anything that has a perceptible electrical charge may be found with this power, at Storyteller’s discretion, including radio waves and other electrical signals. In the modern nights, radio and similar signals saturate the city. Discerning between the multiple signals requires a Resolve + Levinbolt vs a Difficulty decided by the specific signal. Deciphering walkie talkie or radio signals is usually rolled vs Difficulty 2, while cell phone communication is rolled at 3. Landline or more encrypted methods involve higher Difficulties at Storyteller discretion.
- Duration: Passive
Level 2
Synapsis Enhancement
Widely used for those that consider themselves Technomancers, this power uses the dead brain as an auxiliary computer. The vampire draws in ambient charge from around her, and immediately applies that charge in an unorthodox way: channelling it into her mental faculties, essentially giving herself medical electrical brain stimulation and increasing cognitive function.
- Cost: One Rouse Check
- Dice Pool:
- System: Add your Levinbolt rating to all Academics, Science and Technology rolls for the Scene; other Skills can be included at Storyteller's discretion when narratively appropriate.
- Duration: One scene or until dismissed.
Electrical Stimulation
- Amalgam: Fortitude 1
The vampire draws in ambient charge from around her, and immediately applies that charge to attempt normal body functioning under extreme circumstances, like making broken muscles work as intended or to ready one's mind after mental defeat, effectively negating the effects of the impairment of choice.
- Cost: One Rouse Check
- Dice Pool:
- System: No roll is needed to activate this power. When activated, the vampire chooses its Willpower or Health tracker, ignoring the penalties from impairment for the duration. This power does not prevent penalties from Crippling Injuries. Only one instance from this power can be active at any time.
- Duration: One Scene
Level 3
Discharge
Rather than drawing in ambient charge from around the area; this time the effect is much more pronounced, as their body takes on a deep blue hue as energy arcs across them, making this an obvious breach of the Masquerade. The vampire immediately discharges this as a burst of electricity from their hands, either in the form of an arc of blue lightning from their fingertips, or a full-body discharge of deep blue electricity. Upon impact, the muscles of the target stiffen up, making it hard to move.
- Cost: One Rouse Check
- Dice Pool: Intelligence + Levinbolt vs Dexterity + Athletics or Strength + Stamina.
- System: Channelling the raw energy of electricity involves an Intelligence + Levinbolt attack roll (which can be dodged like any ranged attack) with +2 to damage bonus. This causes the crippling injury stunned for a turn and causes Aggravated Health damage to mortals and un-halved Superficial to Kindred. Alternatively, if the character is being touched by the target (such as in a Grapple) this becomes a full -body discharge, resisted by the target's Strength + Stamina. A mortal who takes even one point of damage collapses unconscious. It is possible to use this power on humans in a non -lethal way, removing the damage but not the unconsciousness.
- Duration: One use
ElectroMagnetic Cover
Channelling the electricity produced by her undead body as well as the ambient charge with great precision, the vampire creates an electromagnetic field strong enough to stop bullets.
- Cost: One Rouse Check
- Dice Pool: Composure + Levinbolt
- System: The vampire creates a vertical, rectangular field of crackling electricity that has a maximum length in yards/meters equal to the Levinbolt dots of the user. The size and width of the field can be modulated once per turn to cover other teammates inside the range at the cost as risking more damage to it. The vampire can do nothing else except control the field and walk while this power is active. Anyone attempting a Ranged attack against targets protected by the field roll against Difficulty 1 and subtracts the margin to the field’s Health. The field has a Health equal to three times the Levinbolt dots of the user and receives damage like mortals. The user can opt to redirect the bullets trapped in the field to attack with a roll of Composure + Levinbolt, with a damage bonus equal to half its missing Health (round up). This attack has the effective range of a shotgun. Attempting such action makes the field collapse.
- Duration: One scene or until collapse.
Level 4
Eye of the Storm
The vampire draws in so much ambient charge that her body becomes the centre of a veritable electrical storm, with significant electrical charge enveloping her body and fluctuating constantly in blinding flashes of light.
- Cost: Two Rouse Checks
- Dice Pool: Intelligence + Levinbolt
- System: Anyone attempting to make a Ranged or Thrown attack against the caster suffers a penalty to their pool equal to the Levinbolt rating of the vampire. When fighting in Close Combat, the attacker suffers 3 Superficial Health Damage as the electricity reacts to the stimulus and 'lashes out' at the attacker.
- Duration: One scene or until dismissed.
Level 5
Thor's Fury
- Prerequisite: Discharge
An advancement of the Discharge power, the strength of the vampire's bolts are such that the damage is an order of magnitude higher, lightning arcs and bursts from where the vampire wills it to strike, more in line with 'real' lightning'.
- Cost: One Rouse Check
- Dice Pool: Intelligence + Levinbolt vs Dexterity + Athletics or Strength + Stamina.
- System: This power uses the same base system as Discharge, with increased damage. The lightning does Aggravated Health damage to mortals and vampires alike. If the target receives any point of damage, the lightning discharges electricity around them. Anyone within three-meter radius of it must make a Dexterity + Athletics roll vs Difficulty 3 to avoid the bouncing lightning. Failing the roll causes the Crippling Injury Stunned for a turn. A mortal who takes even one point of damage dies instantly.
- Duration: One use
Credits
Author: Sharei
Other Credits: Consultation and balancing input from ElmerG
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