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Chapter II: Character
motel room may reveal who has been in the room recently
and what they did there, though a television set’s “memory”
won’t reach as far back as a computer’s. Joining with a mainframe
computer may give the character reams of information,
more than he can even absorb. The character retains
information for one minute after leaving the gestalt
A werewolf can remain bound to a machine’s spirit
for a number of turns equal to his Harmony, or he may
break contact as an instant action earlier if all information
sought is acquired.
If the object to which a character’s psyche is connected
is destroyed, the character’s identity is thrown back to his
body immediately. Any Structure damage inflicted on the
object is also inflicted as points of Health to the character’s
body. If the werewolf’s body is attacked, he is aware of it
immediately. If his body is knocked unconscious, his spirit
returns. If his body is killed, his psyche is trapped in the
object for the duration of the power and is then lost forever.
Exceptional Success: The character can remain in
contact with the object’s spirit for a number of hours equal
to his Harmony dots.
Create Technology (•••••)
To a master of technological animism, complicated
devices are simply another element to be conjured up at
will. This Gift allows a werewolf to create sophisticated
technology from the basest materials.
Cost: 1 Essence + 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Crafts + Cunning
Action: Extended (5 to 50 successes required; one
turn passes per roll)
The character must have some foundation materials,
such as metal or plastic, roughly equivalent in mass to the
item she wishes to create. She must also either know how
to build the item in question or have access to instructions
on how to construct such a thing. A character cannot create
a complicated bomb without either extensive knowledge
of explosives or a manual or other set of instructions
on how to create the object in question. Within these
limitations, this Gift can quickly and efficiently replicate
almost any technology imaginable. With a few pounds of
scrap metal and sand, for example, she can create a rudimentary
computer. Or a handful of glass could be transformed
into a magnifying glass. The more complex the
item is, the more successes are required. A dozen bullets
may be formed with as few as five successes, a pistol 15,
while a car or computer would take a total of 50.
WARDING GIFT S
Protecting the sanctity of the Uratha’s many holy
sites is the reason various wards were originally developed.
Over time, however, the People have found myriad ways to
put wards to use outside loci, though they are still primarily
used to guard those locations. These Gifts are typically
taught by wolf- or ancestor-spirits.
Ward Versus Predators (•)
The simplest of protections, this Gift lets other
predators know that a tract of land has been claimed by a
werewolf. All such predatory animals instinctually realize
that to intrude into the territory is an invitation to be
attacked or killed, and most are cowed by such knowledge,
avoiding the warded ground religiously thereafter to avoid
a potentially fatal confrontation.
Cost: None
Dice Pool: Presence + Intimidation + Honor
Action: Extended (5 successes per square mile required;
one hour per roll)
The werewolf marks the extent of her territory (a
maximum area equal to one square mile per point of the
character’s Primal Urge) by urinating on objects along
its boundaries. If the ward is set up around an area that
already contains more than ten types of predatory animals
per square mile (such as a zoo), the Gift cannot take effect.
Animals that are already in the ward’s area of effect
when the Gift is invoked aren’t affected by the ward.
A number of successes must be achieved for an
intruder on a Resolve + Composure roll in excess of those
achieved on the werewolf’s Presence + Intimidation +
Honor roll for a predatory animal to enter the warded area
voluntarily. An equal number or less and the animal turns
away at the boundary. The ward lasts for one lunar cycle.
No penalties are imposed on an animal that is involuntarily
dragged into the area. A ward doesn’t prevent other
werewolves, other supernatural beings or humans from
entering one’s territory. It works only against mundane
predatory reptiles, birds and mammals. Other werewolves
and supernatural beings with the senses to recognize the
ward notice it, however. Crossing into the territory is,
therefore, a conscious choice and an invitation for harm.
Ward Versus Humans (••)
Many times, the biggest danger to a locus comes not
from werewolves’ supernatural rivals, but from humanity’s
teeming ignorant masses, ever eager to transform the
world around them and never suspecting the troubles this
calls down from the Shadow. Entering, much less clearing,
woods warded by this Gift calls forth feelings of unparalleled
dread from the depths of the hindbrain. “Something
lives in there that’s mightier than you,” the mind screams.
“Something hungry that will eat you up.” Someone intent
on entering the warded area might convince himself to do
so, but a casual hiker or other such indifferent walks away.
Cost: 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Presence + Intimidation + Wisdom
Action: Extended (5 successes per square mile required;
one hour per roll)
The werewolf marks the extent of her territory (a
maximum area equal to one square mile per point of the
character’s Primal Urge) by urinating on objects along its
boundaries. For a human being to enter the warded area