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

Kindred who drink it suffer one point of lethal damage for every Vitae consumed; mortals
who imbibe suffer two points of lethal damage for each Vitae. When a Kindred consumes a
quantity of venomous Vitae, she earns no nourishment from it.
Vitae altered by this ritual is poisonous only so long as it’s in the performer’s body (or until
the next sunrise). If the Vitae leaves, it becomes as any other Vitae spilled from a Kindred’s
body. Thus, it cannot be used to create poisoned weapons, and if one consumes the Vitae
from a container after it leaves the body, it is simply normal, non-poisonous Vitae.
DEFLECTION OF WOODEN DOOM (LEVEL-THREE CRUAC RITUAL)
The performer invokes a mystic protection against attempts to impale her heart with a
stake. If the ritual succeeds, any attempt to stake the vampire fails for the duration of the
spell. Stakes used in this manner rot or disintegrate as wielders attempt to use them against
the performer, leaving no useful pieces behind. An attempt to stake the Kindred in question
must be made for this ritual to take effect. (It does not simply rot all stakes and would-be
stakes in her presence.) This power cannot be invoked to protect others; it works only on
the sorcerer herself. This ritual fades at sundown of the subsequent night, though it may be
invoked again immediately thereafter.
TOUCH OF THE MORRIGAN (LEVEL-THREE CRUAC RITUAL)
The caster performs this ritual (Manipulation + Occult + Crúac is drawn) and channels his
righteous ire into a tangible force. If the performance draw is successful, the user’s mere touch
becomes deadly. The sorcerer must then touch a subject with his open palm. (See “Touching
an Opponent,” p. 217 of the Mind’s Eye Theatre rulebook.) Contact infl icts an amount of
lethal damage equal to the number of successes gained on the activation draw. (The power
cannot be delivered through a punch or other unarmed close-combat attack.) This harm can
be delivered only once per performance of the ritual, and this rite lasts for one hour for every
success drawn. If that period of time passes without a touch being made, the power fades.
The mark made by contact is physically manifest in accordance with its severity. A Touch
of the Morrigan that infl icts one point of damage looks like a minor scar or livid bruise,
while one that delivers fi ve points of damage leaves the subject almost entirely blackened and
charred looking. The visible injury fades as the damage is healed. This power affects only
vampires, ghouls and other supernatural creatures. It seems that Kindred cannot infl ict their
viciousness on mortals in this manner.
At the Storyteller’s discretion, victims of particularly powerful uses of this rite may acquire
penalties to relevant appearance-related draws until the damage is healed or be forced to adopt
appropriate makeup or description tags to simulate their ravaged looks.
BLOOD PRICE (LEVEL-FOUR CRUAC RITUAL)
The sorcerer mystically claims one third of the Vitae that a subject imbibes. The subject
must be within sight when this ritual is performed. Every time the subject feeds, a third of the
Vitae he consumes is denied him and transfers invisibly to the sorcerer, regardless of either
vampire’s location. (In other words, every third point of Vitae consumed is passed to the caster.)
This Vitae is always “neutral,” which is to say that the feeding Kindred does not subject the
sorcerer to a Vinculum in this manner, and neither does feeding from a third-party vampire
apply any blood bonds to the sorcerer (though it certainly does to the feeding vampire). The
effects of this ritual expire after one feeding or the next sunrise, whichever comes fi rst.
A contested draw is made to activate this power, pitting the sorcerer’s Manipulation + Occult
+ Crúac versus the subject’s Composure + Blood Potency, and this resistance is refl exive. If
the most successes are drawn for the caster, the subject has no idea where some of the Vitae
he consumes disappears to, yet he knows that he goes slightly undernourished.
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