Dragon: The Embers Core Book - MrGone's Character Sheets

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Inflicting Inflicting Disease
Disease
When using Taint the Possession, the
object’s paint gifts sickness and madness
to those who touch it. The Dragon is
able to lace the object with a range of
conditions up to her proficiency in the
Greed Philosophy. Like mending
diseases in the Dominion school,
conditions fall into a variety of
categories depending on their overall
interpreted severity. Such severity may
not match their real-world severity, but
these are the numbers assigned by the
Dragon’s mind.
Trivial Condition (●): cold, flu, minor
addiction, fatigue, acne, parasites, etc.
Pesky Condition (●●): most STDs, major
addiction, bone fractures, etc.
Serious Condition (●●●): neurological
disorders, blood disorders, asthma,
rabies, etc.
Fatal Condition (●●●●): cancer, aids,
Huntington’s, meningitis, etc.
Supernatural Condition (●●●●●):
possession, claiming, antecedent
passenger, etc. (NOT vampirism)
Any who touch the successfully painted
object suffer the conditions laid out by
the Greed Dragon, so long as those
conditions total less or equal to her
current Greed rating. For example, a
Dragon with Greed 4 using Taint the
Possession could curse it with two Pesky
conditions, but not a Supernatural
condition.
Poison Poison the the Possession Possession ( (●●●) (
Once the object has been cursed with
long-term consequences, the Dragon can
begin lacing it with short-term ones. This
takes the form of abrasive contact. The
Greed Dragon spends one point of Breath
and rolls Poison the Possession. Each time
someone touches the object, they suffer an
amount of bashing wounds equal to the
Dragon’s proficiency in Greed.
Though Poison the Possession can be
applied multiple times to the same object,
only the last time counts.
Cost: 1 Breath
Dice Pool: Strength + Subterfuge + Furnace
+ Greed – Durability – Artifact Rating
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The Greed Dragon is
splattered, with a -3 penalty to detect it. She
will not suffer the damage, as that would
immediately reveal her blunder. She can
continue to apply curses to the object, but
will suffer their vengeance herself.
Failure: The abrasive lacing fails, and the
Greed Dragon must try again before she can
continue with bigger curses.
Success: The object is laced with an
abrasion curse, making it inflict injury each
time it is touched. Any touch sends a jolt
through the thief, inflicting a number of
bashing wounds equal to the Dragon’s
Greed proficiency. This effect lasts as long
as the Greed paint does.
Exceptional Success: In addition to success,
the Dragon recovers her point of Breath.
Radiating Radiating Sickness Sickness ( (●●●●) (
The ultimate in revenge, this effect
causes the object to radiate an aura of
unhealth. Wounds do not heal while in the
radius of this object's curse. This can only
be applied to the object's paint, not the
thief's. Within 10 yards for every dot of
Furnace and every Success, time to recover
wounds does not count down for anyone
who has touched the painted object. Using
this Philosophy costs a point of Willpower.
If a thief sleeps in the range, 8 hours
are lost towards healing lethal wounds, or
rather one-third of a day. That means it
takes three days to heal a lethal wound,
provided the subject leaves the curse range