Werewolf: The Forsaken - Blank It

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Chapter II: Character
Cost: 1 Essence
Dice Pool: Dexterity + Occult + Purity
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character does not manipulate
the Gauntlet to his advantage. In fact, he warps it in
such a way that he tears it. This tear reseals itself instantly
like the walls of a burst blood vessel, but a hostile spirit
in the area might take the opportunity to leap from the
Shadow to the physical world. (The tear does not allow
any being other than a spirit to cross over, though.)
Failure: The character is unable to manipulate the
Gauntlet.
Success: The character manipulates the Gauntlet, accruing
the listed bonuses and inflicting the listed penalties.
Exceptional Success: The character’s split condition
inflicts a –3 penalty on ranged attacks (as if she were substantially
concealed), as well as a +1 bonus to the Ithaeur’s
Defense against close-combat attacks.
Between the Weave (••••)
As a Ithaeur’s mastery of the ways of the spirit world
grows, she learns even better how to manipulate the Gauntlet.
She is now adept at finding and slipping through local
points of least resistance, making travel between worlds all
but effortless. In a locus’ area of influence, she is perhaps the
most dangerous member of her pack.
A werewolf using this Gift can cross the Gauntlet as a
reflexive action and still take an action in the same turn. She
can leap through the Gauntlet and attack an opponent, for
example, inflicting a surprise penalty on her foe (unless her
foe is using Two-World Eyes at that very moment or succeeds
on a reflexive Wits + Composure roll at a –4 penalty). She
could also escape a particularly gruesome situation in one
world and spend a few moments regenerating in the other
before rejoining the fray. She could even attack a foe then
disappear across the Gauntlet before the foe has a chance to
take an action. If she’s of a mind to really devour her Essence,
she can slip back and forth across the Gauntlet multiple times
in a combat situation to disorient enemies or help embattled
allies who are across the Gauntlet from each other.
Using this Gift only makes crossing the Gauntlet a
reflexive action, however. It does not grant the character
any additional actions. Also, this Gift still requires the
Ithaeur to be within the area of influence of a locus. It
only allows her to step sideways quickly, not to step sideways
anywhere.
Cost: 1 Essence
Dice Pool: No roll is required.
Action: Reflexive
Crash the Gates (•••••)
The Ithaeur’s knowledge of the nature of the Gauntlet
has grown such that she can extend the effect of the
Gift: Between the Weave to her packmates. As with
Between the Weave, this Gift does not allow for instantaneous
side-stepping away from a locus.
The effects are the same as for Between the Weave,
but the Ithaeur must spend one point of Essence per packmate
she intends to usher across the Gauntlet in addition
to the Essence she must spend on her own behalf. This
Gift works only for the Ithaeur and her packmates, and
each packmate must be present, conscious and willing to
cross the Gauntlet with the others. The unconscious and
the unwilling will be left behind, and the Ithaeur does not
have to pay the Essence cost for them.
Most packs who use this Gift to good effect do so as a
way to launch devastating surprise attacks on those who have
entered the heart of their territory. Should they try to use the
tactic once combat has already started (i.e., once Initiative
has already been rolled), they do so on the Ithaeur’s Initiative.
Characters who act before the Ithaeur can attack a foe on the
same side of the Gauntlet before crossing over in that turn,
but they cannot attack a foe on the opposite side unless they
delays their actions until after the Ithaeur has acted. Characters
whose Initiative falls after the Ithaeur’s cross over with
the rest of their packmates, but they don’t have a chance to
act until after they have crossed over. The Ithaeur can take
an action before or after crossing the Gauntlet, but not both
in that same turn. The Ithaeur’s packmates cross the Gauntlet
only in the same direction as the Ithaeur does. They can’t
pass like ships in the night just because the Ithaeur is using
this Gift.
The experience cost to learn this Gift is doubled if
the character does not already know Between the Weave.
Cost: 1 Essence + (1 Essence per additional packmate)
Dice Pool: No roll is required
Action: Instant
DEATH GIFT S
Some cultures claimed that the wolf was the messenger
between life and death, the one who walked between both
worlds. In part, these legends reflect the legend of Father
Wolf. In part, though, they are also real. They reflect the
secrets of mortality uncovered by Death Wolf, and later
passed onto her Bone Shadow children. Gifts of Death allow
a werewolf to manipulate the border between this world
and the next in subtle but effective ways. They are usually
taught by death-spirits or by spirits of animals associated
with death (such as vultures, serpents, ravens or jackals).
Death Sight (•)
To understand something, one must first be able to
perceive it. The werewolf with this Gift is able to adjust
his sight to see the impressions left by death. He can see
ghosts and perceive the spiritual imprint left where a
person or higher animal died, though the knowledge could
bring him grief. While this Gift is in effect, a character’s
eyes turn a milky white, as if covered with cataracts, but
he can still perceive what’s going on around him.
Cost: None