Vicissitude

Protean ••

Amalgam: Dominate 2

This is the signature power of the Tzimisce: the ability to reshape others’ flesh and bone like clay, bending bodies as well as minds to their will. Some Fiends use this for “cosmetic surgery”, altering other vampires’ appearance (for a price), while others use it to transform their ghouls into horrifying weapons of war.

Cost: One Rouse Check, in addition to the cost of any other powers used
Dice Pool: Resolve + Protean
System: With a full scene of agonizing work, the vampire can apply any of their other Protean powers to another target. Stolen Aspects might require injecting a mixture of vitae and animal blood, while Feral Weapons could involve extruding their finger bones into serrated claws, or Eyes of the Beast surgical modifications to the inside of the eye.

Roll Resolve + Protean, at a difficulty equal to three plus the number of Vicissitude modifications the target already has. On a win, the target gains the benefits of one of the user’s Protean powers (of the user’s choice); on a critical win, they gain two, which only count as a single modification for the purpose of this power’s difficulty.

The target has no control over the granted power, and its duration is ignored; it’s effectively “always on”, until reverted with another use of this ability or healed as a Crippling Injury (which likely requires extensive surgery for mortals or ghouls).

Other types of alterations are possible, at Storyteller discretion; as a rule of thumb, any changes a vampire could make to their own body with a Protean Project can be applied to others with this power. For example, a vampire with Protean 1 could permanently change their sex or gain the Looks merit with a Project, so a Vicissitude-user could launch a Project to apply these changes to someone else.

Duration: Permanent, or until reverted

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