Mind's Eye Theatre - Vampire The Requiem.pdf - RoseRed

The vampire must make eye contact, as with Feral Whispers, and convey to an animal
precisely what he wants it to do. The animal obeys to the best of its ability, but its nature and
intelligence might cause it to interpret its orders in unusual ways. Once it has received an
order, the animal carries it out, assuming it can be completed before the following sunrise.
At dawn, the compulsion ceases, regardless of whether the task is complete or not.
It is extremely diffi cult to order an animal to do anything blatantly against its nature (such
as ordering a sparrow to attack someone) or obviously self-destructive (such as forcing a guard
dog to lie down in front of a moving truck).
A vampire can give single orders to only one animal at a time, but he may have as many
animals currently under his control as circumstances allow, as long as he can give each one
its orders individually. As with Feral Whispers, the Kindred may choose to give commands
either in plain language or by making appropriate animalistic sounds, as desired.
At the Storyteller’s discretion, a vampire may use this Discipline during downtime to hand
off a downtime action to an animal servant, provided the animal is capable of performing it.
(A regular Discipline draw must be made to see if the command takes hold, but the result is
considered to apply throughout the downtime if several uses of this Discipline would be normally
required to perform the action over a number of days.) For example, the vampire could
call a crow to tail a target and see where he goes, but not to hack a computer network or even
tell him what the target says, since those tasks are not within the crow’s capability. Regardless
of how many servants he might possess, a vampire may not hand off more downtime actions
to animal servants during a single downtime period than he has dots in this Discipline.
Cost: —
Test Pool: Presence + Animal Ken + Animalism – animal’s Composure
Action: Instant
Roleplay: Same as Feral Whispers.
Obedience also requires a contested draw if the animal is already under the control of
another Kindred with this power (in which case Obedience successes achieved must exceed
those drawn for the original vampire).
Draw Results
Failure: Failure indicates that the character cannot command or communicate with the
animal.
Success: Success indicates that the animal obeys the character’s orders to the best of its
abilities.
••• CALL OF THE WILD
The Kindred is so fully in tune with her own Beast that she can call out in a feral voice
— howling, hissing, cawing or the like — that beckons all creatures of a specifi c type. Any animal
of that sort within a given area is compelled to respond, immediately moving toward the
Kindred at its fastest possible speed, via the most direct route it can fi nd. Only animals that
can hear the call are summoned, so creatures that have been deafened or that are insulated
from the sound by thick walls or other barriers do not respond. Animals that respond to the
Kindred’s call are not automatically under her control, but they are more easily subjected to
other Animalism powers. Lastly, only natural animals respond to this call — no hell hounds
or gargoyles (see p. 349), for example, answer it.
Cost: 1 Vitae
Test Pool: Presence + Animal Ken + Animalism
Action: Instant
Roleplaying: Calling out appropriate animal noises loudly and clearly.
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