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during the daytime (see p. 264). The consciousness of a vampire who falls asleep returns to
her body and she rises the next night as normal, entirely within the physical world.
A ghost body appears naked and with no possessions. Artifacts that are composed entirely
of spirit matter might be employed in this form, but no physical objects transfer over. Likewise,
any objects found during the wraithly endeavor cannot be manipulated or return with the
character when she fi nally rejoins her physical body.
A projecting vampire can potentially be barred mystically from returning to her body, or
she might become lost and incapable of fi nding her body again. Rumors also speak of other
spirits that can enter a vampire’s vacant body, stranding the Kindred as a ghost body. Denied
her own body (or perhaps another one to possess), each night that passes for the ghost body
removes a dot of Blood Potency from its essence. When those dots are reduced to zero, the
ghost-Kindred suffers Final Death and fades into oblivion.
Suggested Modifi ers
Typically, no modifi ers are necessary, but the Storyteller may penalize the activation draw by
up to two in the event of a hastened projection, such as when a vampire abandons her body
at the moment of Final Death (after all, a ghost body is better than no body at all).
CELERITY
Tales and legends of vampires ascribe to them inhuman speed, the ability to move faster
than the eye can see, and even to appear in two places at once. While some of those accounts
are exaggerated, Kindred with the Discipline of Celerity can indeed move far faster
than any mortal. They appear to blur into nothingness, all others moving as if in slow
motion in comparison.
Note that Celerity is obviously superhuman in use. Few Princes smile upon uses of Celerity
that leave too many curious mortal witnesses unaccounted for.
Cost: 1 Vitae per turn
Test Pool: Celerity is unlike many other Disciplines in that it is not actively drawn. Rather,
it provides a group of benefi ts, many of which affect other draws.
Celerity cannot be invoked more than once per turn. That is, you may not spend a second
Vitae and double the benefi ts of Celerity in a given turn, though you may spend Vitae across
multiple turns to enjoy the benefi ts over those turns in a continuous burst of speed.
In turns when a character activates her Celerity, her dots in the Discipline are subtracted
from any and all attacking characters’ test pools to affect a character physically, as
the vampire moves much more quickly than normal and is harder to hit. This penalty to
attackers’ pools applies in addition to any armor the Celerity-using character has, as well
as to Defense (though note, like armor, Celerity’s benefi ts do not diminish based on how
many attacks the character faces). Celerity’s protection even applies against fi rearms. For
example, if a character has Celerity 3 and activates the Discipline, a –3 penalty is applied
to any assailants’ test pools.
Celerity also adds to a character’s Initiative during the turn in which it is active. The
aforementioned character with Celerity 3 and Initiative 5 would have a basic Initiative
modifi er of 8 during turns in which his Celerity is active.
Finally, Celerity acts as a modifi er to a character’s Speed while it is active. His Acting
Speed increases by one step for each dot of Celerity he possesses. Should a character choose
only to run for his turn, he may add his Celerity rating to his Running Speed, then double
that. So if a sample character with Celerity 3 has a normal Running Speed of 12, while
Celerity is active his Running Speed becomes 30.
Action: Refl exive. A character may “pre-empt” her own action in a turn to activate Celerity
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