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

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•••• SUMMONING
This rather potent power allows the vampire to call any individual he knows personally
to his side. In short, the vampire reaches out with the force of his personality and makes
a colleague, acquaintance, rival or outright enemy know without doubt that he wishes that
person to attend him at once. There is no limit on the distance or range of this power, but
summoning someone halfway around the world takes time, even under the best of circumstances.
The subject of Summoning takes the most direct possible route to the vampire’s
location and intuitively knows when the vampire moves, though doesn’t necessarily know
the fi nal destination until he gets there (it’s a sort of direction sense).
The summoned individual knows to whose presence he is traveling, and he may pause to
make necessary arrangements before departure. In other words, the compulsion is strong
and the subject doesn’t dilly-dally, but he is hardly a single-minded drone in his desire to
reach the vampire. The subject does, however, use any resources at his disposal to see that he
arrives both safely and punctually.
The call of a summoning fades with the fi rst rays of the sun at dawn. Therefore, if a subject
is truly far away or a suffi ciently fast means of transportation is not available to him, he can
deny the compulsion to attend the summoner at dawn. Indeed, he could return home and
go about his business. If the subject is predisposed toward the summoner, however, he may
continue the quest of his own accord. During the day, he is under his own power to fi nd the
vampire and loses his “direction sense.” Another vampire is not compelled to seek the summoner
to the very light of day, causing his Final Death. The seeker fi nds shelter beforehand.
Unless the subject already knows where and how to reach the summoning vampire, the call
must be repeated each night until the subject arrives. If, as in the preceding case with the
resistant subject, the distance is too far or available transportation is too slow, the subject
might never arrive. He falls into a cycle of being drawn to and fl eeing from the summoner.
If the subject has to travel through apparently harmful environments or into very dangerous
territory to reach the summoner, the summoning fades. An example would be a hunted
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