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

In order to avoid potential problems, players with active Heightened Senses should use the
standard hand signals to indicate heightened hearing, vision or other senses when they fi rst
enter a room or meet another character, or else simply make an out-of-game announcement
when they raise or lower their Heightened Senses.
Cost: —
Test Pool: This power typically involves no draw. The player simply activates the power and
explains to the Storyteller what his character is doing and with which sense(s). The Storyteller
responds by relating whatever information can be gleaned. The only time a draw comes into
play for Heightened Senses is when the Storyteller wishes to permit the character a chance
to perceive an imminent threat. In this case, the Storyteller may allow the player to add her
character’s Auspex dots to a surprise draw (Wits + Composure — see the Mind’s Eye Theatre
rulebook, p. 48).
Heightened Senses may also come into play with task cards marked “Heightened Senses”
or “Heightened Sense X” (where X is a particular sense), which allow users of this Discipline
a chance to glean extra information beyond what characters with lesser senses can obtain.
This power allows a vampire to see in pitch-black darkness.
Roleplaying: Appropriate hand signals.
Action: Instant
•• AURA PERCEPTION
With this mystic power, a vampire can open his perceptions to the psychic auras that surround
all sentient creatures. Numerous and often-shifting hues and patterns compose these
auras, and it can take many years before a vampire becomes truly profi cient at reading them
correctly with any degree of regularity. Although the strongest emotions predominate, almost
every individual has more than one color to his aura at any given time, and an observer can
see any number of streaks or fl ashes of these other colors.
“Psychic colors” change with the subject’s mental or emotional state, creating an ever-moving
pattern that is as unique to each person as a fi ngerprint. As a rule, the more powerful the
emotions, the more intense the colors, but even this guideline is betrayed by any number of
circumstantial mitigating factors. All the same, practice makes perfect; a true master auraperceiver
learns to understand the signifi cance of each whorl and eddy.
Due to the peculiar nature of such creatures’ auras, this power can be used as a means of
detecting other supernatural entities. Vampire auras, for example, tend to be extremely pale,
regardless of the colors. Werewolf auras are quite the contrary, nearly frantic in their intensity.
Mage auras sparkle with power. Ghostly auras fl icker like guttering candles.
A table has been provided detailing the correspondences between different moods and the
colors of the aura, as well as the different auras of various supernatural creatures. Auspex users
are expected to learn these colors as part of using the Discipline, as well as to help others
answer correctly. It is recommended for fl avor and atmosphere that other players learn these
colors whenever possible. Failing that, however, if a player does not know the proper aura
colors, it is certainly permissible for them to answer just by naming their emotions and/or
the differences in their aura, if any.
Cost: —
Test Pool: Intelligence + Empathy + Auspex – subject’s Composure
Action: Instant. Though this power is an instant action, it takes more than just a fl eeting
glance to see the detail in an aura. A character must scrutinize her subject’s aura uninterrupted
for between two turns and one minute to glean information from it, though only the single,
immediate draw is necessary to determine if she can read it successfully.
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