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Chapter II: Character
NEW MOON GIFT S
The Irralunim Lunes of the New Moon Choir are the
recorders and arbiters of Cunning Renown, and the patrons
of the Irraka auspice. The Gifts they grant remove minor
obstacles that stand in the way of greater, brilliant feats.
The following Gifts are available only to Irraka.
Sense Weakness (•)
One of the clearest indicators of a person’s ingenuity
is his ability to use his enemies’ weaknesses to his advantage.
The Irralunim respect such efforts, and they offer
this Gift to their chosen werewolves to make those efforts
a little easier.
If the character spends even a little time (one turn)
observing his intended target, he can draw on the supernatural
perception of this Gift to analyze the potential
flaws in his target’s mind and body. This Gift reveals
weaknesses that aren’t common to the subject’s kind. It
doesn’t reveal a vampire’s weakness to sunlight (which is
not a personal weakness), but it does reveal that the vampire
suffers from a particular psychological ailment.
Cost: None
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Empathy + Wisdom
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The werewolf garners a false
impression about the subject’s weaknesses. The Storyteller
might want to make activation rolls on the player’s behalf
for this reason.
Failure: The werewolf gains no particular hidden
insight into the subject.
Success: The werewolf learns a target’s weakness in
one of three specific areas: his target’s Vice, the presence
and nature of any derangements from which the target
suffers, or any physical liabilities (Flaws) the character
suffers (such as a bad leg or poor eyesight). Already known
weaknesses are not revealed. The Storyteller decides
which is discovered. The Gift can be used successfully on
a single subject only once a day. Subsequent uses in the
same day reveal no further flaws.
Exceptional Success: In one use, the werewolf learns
two of the three possible types of weakness he could
discover.
Slip Away (••)
If an Irraka doesn’t enter a dangerous situation, he
isn’t doing his job. When he does find trouble, it’s up to
him to use cunning to get out of it again. Even the clever
werewolf gets caught from time to time, however. The
Irralunim provide this Gift as a first step toward helping
Irraka get out of the dicey situations.
With the expenditure of one Willpower point, an
Irraka can use this Gift to escape any mundane bond or to
wriggle free of an attacker’s arms with little apparent effort.
If the werewolf is bound physically (be it with handcuffs,
rope, chain, a straitjacket, duct tape or even a dollop of
industrial-strength adhesive), this Gift frees him automatically.
The bonds remain sound and unbroken (as well as
locked, buckled or even sticky, depending on its nature), but
the werewolf slips out effortlessly — often leaving would-be
captors wondering how in the world he did it.
If the werewolf is locked in a grapple by another person
and tries to break free he automatically succeeds. This benefit
does not apply to performing overpowering maneuvers
of the werewolf’s own, only on efforts to escape a hold.
This Gift does not allow the Irraka to slip out of bindings
that have active magical effects working on them.
Cost: 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: No roll is required to escape ropes, chains
et cetera.
Action: Reflexive
Dist ractions (•••)
Being werewolves, Irraka are no slouches in a fight, but
their true strengths lie in cleverness and misdirection. The
heat of desperation can make it difficult to think originally
on demand, so this Gift buys a werewolf time to improvise.
As the character spits out whispering yips and hisses,
half-perceived visions much like the Irralunim themselves
flit in and out of a chosen subject’s range of perception,
distracting him. Only the chosen target can perceive these
spirit echoes, but they cause such a distraction that the victim
suffers a –2 modifier to all rolls in every turn in which
the Irraka keeps up his antics. This effect works especially
well in combat, but an Irraka can also use it to distract a
security guard he’s trying to sneak past or to distract the
driver of a car in order to cause a diversionary traffic accident.
The Irraka must be able to see his chosen victim
directly in order to distract him, but the victim need not be
able to see or hear the Irraka. A character may maintain
the effect of this Gift and move normally, but he may not
attack or run in the same turn and maintain the effect. His
Defense modifier still applies as normal.
Only one use of this Gift may be in effect at one time,
and only one subject can be made to see the visions.
Cost: 1 Essence
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Subterfuge + Glory versus
subject’s Resolve + Primal Urge
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The victim is unperturbed by the
character’s efforts, and further uses of this Gift are powerless
against him until the next moonrise.
Failure: The victim is unperturbed by this Gift for
the moment.
Success: The victim is distracted by the character’s
efforts, incurring a –2 penalty on all actions.
Exceptional Success: As a success, but the victim
also loses his Defense against incoming close-combat attacks
in the turn after the Gift is activated.