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

protean • resilience
••••• BODY OF SPIRIT
The pinnacle of most vampires’ achievement in the transfi guring art, this power enables a
Kindred to transform his entire body into a fi ne, chilling mist. As a small cloud of vapor, the
character can fl oat along above the ground at his normal Acting Speed, slipping under doors
and in between screens with ease. Although especially strong winds can divert him from his
desired course for a time, not even gale-force winds can fully disperse his misty essence.
Cost: 1 Vitae
Test Pool: This power involves no draw to invoke. The full change takes one instant action
to complete.
If a strong enough wind picks up, the character’s vaporous body could be subjected to
unwanted direction change if he does not resist successfully. Draw Strength, plus any Vigor
that the vampire activates. There’s no modifi er for a light wind. A strong one imposes a -1
penalty, and a gale-force wind imposes a -3 penalty. A success allows the vampire to travel in
any direction desired for the turn, even against the wind. Four or more successes allows him
to travel in any direction for the remainder of the scene. A failure indicates that the vampire
is pushed by the wind for one turn at the speed it travels. And a failure on a chance draw
(under particularly windy conditions) causes the vampire to blow out of control (but still as
a cohesive whole) for the entire scene.
While in mist form, the character is immune to all physical attacks, which merely pass
through his gaseous body. Mystical attacks, however, still affect him normally, though mystical
attacks that use mundane methods of delivery are similarly ineffective (such as claws or
enchanted physical weapons). Even fi re and sunlight infl ict one less point of damage than
normal. The trade-off, of course, is that a vampire in this state cannot physically attack anyone
(not even another vampire using this power). Disciplines that do not require a body might
still be effective, though. A vampire in gaseous form can use any Discipline he knows except
for Theban Sorcery, Crúac, Celerity and Dominate (which is useless when he has no true eyes
with which to make contact and no mouth with which to speak commands).
A vampire in mist form cannot be “bottled” or otherwise trapped in part by someone trying
to contain or disrupt his form. Bottling a portion of a vampire’s mist doesn’t cause him
to resume human form without an arm, for example. A vampire’s entire mist form can be
contained in a room or other large space that is airtight. Of course, the question arises of
how one can lure a vampire in mist form into an airtight room, or how one even has access
to a truly airtight room.
Action: Instant
Roleplaying: Players whose characters have entered mist form should adopt appropriate
costuming, description tags or postures to indicate their mist form state. While different
troupes may certainly adopt more extensive requirements as they desire, the default hand
gesture for mist form uses the symbol for being on an alternate plane, extending the pinkie
and index fi nger.
RESILIENCE
Legends abound of vampires who are able to withstand even the most brutal punishment to
their unliving forms. While all Kindred possess a certain degree of the toughness of which these
tales speak, those with the Discipline of Resilience are commensurately more stalwart. Vampires
with several dots of Resilience are capable of walking through a hail of bullets, shrugging off even
the most punishing blows, and even resisting the deadly claws and fangs of supernatural foes.
Cost: 1 Vitae per scene to provide “downgrading” benefi ts; additional Health levels are
permanent once bought
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