Werewolf: The Forsaken - Blank It

St raighten (•)
This Gift delivers what it promises, straightening out
kinks, warps, folds or natural imperfections in a physical
object. It could straighten a crooked walking staff into
a long pole, uncoil a spring into a stiff wire, smooth out
a crumpled piece of sheet metal, make a pitted chunk of
concrete as smooth as a river stone, or flatten a bent and
crooked blade to its original shape. Even a cast-off stick
one finds on the ground could be shaped into a perfectly
straight arrow shaft.
This Gift does not, however, repair damage caused by
rust, decay, breakage or the removal of part of an object. If
one were to punch a hole in a metal door, this Gift would
straighten the surface back to its original shape, but the
seams of the break would not magically reseal themselves.
Nor does the Gift reinforce the strength of an object.
This Gift affects up to one square yard of material
per turn. A werewolf could use it to completely repair the
badly dented hood of a car in one turn, for example, but
it takes multiple turns (and multiple points of Essence) to
repair the car’s entire chassis. A werewolf cannot use this
Gift on an item on which Ruin has been used successfully.
Used on an object that has suffered Structure damage
(see World of Darkness Rulebook, p. 135), this Gift
might restore up to half the points suffered (rounded up).
For example, a car that has lost eight of its 12 Structure
in a wreck can be the focus of this Gift and regain four
Structure points, leaving four non-repaired. The Storyteller
decides how applicable such repair is to the object in
question, and decides how many applications of the Gift
are required to accomplish the repairs. Straighten can be
used on an object only once for the current damage that it
suffers. Any remainder must be repaired by conventional
means (see the Crafts Skill in the World of Darkness
Rulebook, p. 57).
Alternatively, Straighten could ruin an object based
on its original purpose, without inflicting a single point of
Structure damage. A drill bit used to crack safes becomes
a useless steel rod, for example.
Cost: 1 Essence
Dice Pool: No roll is required
Action: Instant
Ruin (••)
This Gift has the opposite effect of the preceding
one. With a harsh bark and a flare of energy, the character
causes an object to warp, twist and crumple up into
a useless, gnarled mass. The Gift affects up to about one
square yard of material, and the object must be single and
discrete. A werewolf could ruin the radiator of a car or the
car’s vacuum tube, for example, but he couldn’t ruin the
entire engine with one use of the Gift. He could use Ruin
to wreck a door, but he couldn’t use it to wreck a loadbearing
wall. He could wreck a single ceiling beam, but he
couldn’t ruin the entire ceiling.
A werewolf can use this Gift on an object on which
Straighten has been used, but a werewolf cannot use
Straighten to fix an object on which this Gift has been used.
Cost: 1 Essence
Dice Pool: Wits + Crafts + Cunning
Action: Instant
No actual Structure damage is done to the object in
question. Glass doesn’t break. Wood doesn’t splinter. Steel
doesn’t crack. It merely changes shape.
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The item is unaffected, but the
user of the Gift suffers two points of bashing damage as
something writhes and warps in his guts.
Failure: Nothing happens.
Success: A discrete item up to one square yard in
area warps and crumples uncontrollably, more than likely
rendering it useless.
Exceptional Success: The user regains the Essence
spent to activate this Gift.
Sculpt (•••)
With this Gift, a physical object becomes as malleable
and workable as clay. A character can sculpt and re-form
the object into any shape he desires, as long as he has
the manual dexterity to do so, of course. He can perform
quick, indelicate changes, such as snatching a gem out of
its setting, or he can perform non-intuitive transformations
such as flattening out a bowling ball and shaping it
into a stout club.
The character can manipulate up to one cubic yard
of material per use of this Gift, and he can continue to
work and shape it for half an hour per Essence spent (as
long as he continues to touch it). The Essence need not be
spent up front; it can be spent throughout the process as it
proves necessary. Also, a character can use a tool such as a
knife to sculpt the object as long as some other part of his
body is touching the substance.
An Intelligence + Crafts + Wisdom roll activates
the Gift and makes the substance in question malleable
enough to work with, but a Dexterity + Crafts roll (along
with any tool bonuses) is necessary to determine the quality
of the item he sculpts. When the work is done (either
the half-hour time limit runs out without further Essence
expenditures, or the character breaks contact with the
object), the material returns to its original consistency and
physical properties. For example, a character could use this
Gift to wad a glass bottle up into a ball and then sculpt a
pair of wrist manacles out of it, but when the work is done
it’s as easy to smash the manacles as it would be to smash
a bottle. The sculpted item has the same Durability of its
original form, though it may no longer have the same Size
and therefore Structure.
This Gift can affect only one substance at a time, but
that substance can be part of a complex object. A werewolf
could use this Gift to twist apart the barrel and cyl-
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