Chow Down
Fortitude •••
- Amalgam: Oblivion 2 or Protean 2
While a drained leftover lump of human meat is nothing more than an inconvenience to most Kindred, there are those who would treat it as a delicacy instead. Employed mostly by the former members of the exotic and terrifying Nagaraja bloodline, and surprisingly common among the Kindred communities established in East Asia, this power allows a Vampire to palate and gain nourishment from human flesh. While this does not allow them to slake any Hunger, it is effective at stalling the increase of it, especially if one often finds themselves knitting potholes and regrowing limbs.
- Cost: Free
- Dice Pool: None
- System: The Vampire can now eat and gain nourishment from human flesh. Upon eating a sufficient amount (baseline is a single large organ, like the liver), you gain a Satiation Token, and you can store up to 2 of them.
For most young Kindred the flesh can’t have started decomposing (though it may have started bloating) - a two day old carcass is generally the limit. Preservation methods, such as freezing, can be used to extend the meat’s shelf life.
This power does not let you consume any bone, and any amount eaten will likely make you throw up. Thus, it does not help in disposing of bodies.
You can, at any time when making a Rouse Check, spend one Token in order to gain one of following effects:
- add a die to the next Rouse Check for activating a Discipline power or for waking up in the evening
- automatically succeed on a Rouse Check for mending damage, including checks made when healing Aggravated damage
Other Checks, such as those for activating Blush of Life, or those triggered by the smell and sight of blood, may benefit from this power at ST discretion.
A Token is always automatically spent when at Hunger 3 or higher, as you try to maintain your depleting blood reserve. This does not take place if the Check does not benefit from spending a Token.
Feeding restrictions, merits, flaws, and other powers interact with this power in following ways:
“No bagged blood” - the human must have died during the scene in which the devouring takes place.
Need to possess Animal Succulence and be of Blood Potency no greater than 3 to be able to eat animal meat, and even then, only from recent kills. Other advantages and powers alleviating restrictions from feeding on animals might raise the Blood Potency threshold.
“Slake x point less per human” - need to eat x times more flesh to gain a token.
Iron Gullet can let you eat decomposing meat.
Organovores (Corebook, pg. 181) gain tokens if they eat flesh when at a point where it can not slake their Hunger (Eating when at x Hunger with the restriction “Must kill a human to reduce Hunger below x").
A single human is always enough to bring even an ancient Organovore to 0 Hunger and gain 2 Tokens
Tokens can also be gained when using Visceral Absorption(Sabbat: The Black Hand, pg. 181) in addition to slaking hunger, unless only minute amounts of gore were absorbed.
- Duration: Indefinite, the Tokens do not expire over time on their own
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Credits
Author: TheLeezard
Other Credits: All the anime and manga about evil superpowered proto-vampiric cannibals, like Demon Slayer, Berserk, Parasyte, Tokyo Ghoul, JoJo and however many others, that inspired me to write this abomination.
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