Werewolf: The Forsaken - Blank It

Cost: None
Dice Pool: Wits + Occult + Wisdom
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The landscape across the Gauntlet
overwhelms the character’s senses rather than dividing
them evenly. He is subject to the normal penalties for
peeking across the Gauntlet (see p. 252), for the remainder
of the scene. Crossing the Gauntlet during this period
only causes his perceptions to shift back to the other side,
rather than clearing up the problem.
Failure: The character cannot peer across the Gauntlet.
Success: The character can see and understand what’s
happening on both sides of the Gauntlet without penalty.
Exceptional Success: In addition to sight, the character
can divide his sense of either smell or hearing across
the Gauntlet as well.
Read Spirit (••)
The spirit servants of Luna see and know more than
they let on, and wise Ithaeur can gain a portion of their
Ithaeur allies’ insight for their own. As a reward for such
wisdom, the spirits of the Crescent Moon Choir share
what information they have, singing in a high, lilting
whisper that only a werewolf using this Gift can hear.
With the expenditure of one Essence point and a
single success achieved on an Intelligence + Occult +
Cunning roll, the werewolf hears an internal voice like
that of the ethereal Ithalunim. The voice reveals the
name, type and Rank of a spirit under scrutiny. Another
pertinent fact is also gained for each success after the
first. “Pertinent facts” include the spirit’s Power, Finesse or
Resistance score; its Willpower; its Essence; its Speed; or
what Charms it has (on a one-Charm-per-success basis).
These revelations are always couched in in-character
terms. The Gift reveals that a spirit “has an exceptional
strength of will,” not that the spirit “has Willpower 9.”
This Gift may be used only once on any given spirit during
a particular scene.
The Ithaeur’s player decides the facts for which her
successes count. If the Ithaeur is exceptionally lucky,
the Lune might also reveal an even more interesting
fact about the spirit. Such facts include what the spirit
was doing at a specific time, what ban it asks of werewolf
supplicants, what languages it speaks other than the First
Tongue or what obscure behavior might offend it.
Alternatively, if the player wants to roleplay the use of
this Gift as an actual scene and an Ithalunim Lune is on
hand, you may choose to have the Lune truthfully answer
one question per success on the Intelligence + Occult
+ Cunning roll. For the sake of the scene, the Lune in
question is assumed to know the answers to the werewolf’s
questions. Getting the Lune to give those answers, however,
is a matter of roleplaying and dice rolling.
The spirit to be read need not be under the werewolf’s
power or even be present for this Gift to work, but the
Ithaeur has to have at least had some personal experience
with the spirit in order to invoke this Gift. (One scene of
any sort of interaction suffices for a spirit that is not present.)
If she’s only read about a particular spirit or heard
stories about it, the knowledge of the Ithaeur doesn’t help.
This power does not give information about ghosts or
supernatural beings who use a power to render themselves
immaterial (such as vampires using the Twilight Projection
power). Nor does it offer information on werewolves,
Beshilu, Azlu or other creatures of both flesh and spirit.
Cost: 1 Essence
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Occult + Cunning
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The Lune’s response is filtered
through a haze of lunar madness, offering inaccurate
information about the spirit.
Failure: The Gift does not provide answers to the
Ithaeur’s question; she is met with silence or perhaps by
garbled lunatic nonsense.
Success: The Gift reveals the spirit’s name (if it has
an individual name), type and Rank, as well as one additional
fact per success rolled after the first.
Exceptional Success: As a success, and the Lune
reveals one specific fact about the spirit that could prove
pertinent to the plot of the story.
Gauntlet Cloak (•••)
As an Ithaeur’s understanding of the workings of the
spirit world grows, he begins to learn how to manipulate
the Gauntlet itself. The first step in doing so lies in pulling
at the warp and weft of it to draw it around himself protectively,
partially immersing himself in the spirit boundary
without crossing over. When a werewolf activates this
Gift, the very stuff of the Gauntlet swirls around and over
him, partially obscuring him behind a shifting membrane
that appears to be made of the nighttime Hisil sky.
Use of this Gift inflicts a –2 penalty upon mundane and
supernatural attempts to spot the character, as well as a –1
penalty against attempts to recognize the character should
someone spot her. The effect also offers a –2 concealment
modifier against ranged attacks. A character who is already
substantially concealed (–3 to ranged attacks made against
her) now imposes a –5 penalty to incoming ranged attacks.
See the World of Darkness Rulebook, p. 162, for details on
concealment. These effects last for a number of turns equal
to the number of successes achieved on the Dexterity + Occult
+ Purity roll. A character may cross the Gauntlet after
activating this Gift, but she receives no special bonuses to the
attempt. If she wishes to be cloaked again when she arrives
on the other side, she must re-activate the power.
Due to the effort it takes to enwrap oneself and disentangle
oneself from the Gauntlet, a werewolf cannot use
Between the Weave or Crash the Gates during a turn in
which he’s using Gauntlet Cloak.
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